My Chevrolet Express van Class B- camper
I have been camping in my 1990 Chevrolet Silverado Blazer 2-door for the last 20 years. When I removed the back seat there was just enough room for a 3/4 sized (Hollywood, as some people called them)...
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This weekend we camped at another South Dakota campground that we had never camped at before. That was part four of our covid quest to camp at every one in SD.
This time it was Lake Thompson Recreation Area close to the home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie Pageant town of De Smet, SD.
The campsite we chose was very shaded and protected from the wind. People we talked to from Indiana there on a week long fishing trip were camping in one of the cabins near the lake shore really felt the wind.
The water in the lake was very high from all the spring rains they have been getting. Today the wind made the lake very choppy.
On the drive in before we got to the gate of the recreation area we came across this big old chunk of deadwood. It was twice as tall as I was.
We saw numerous muskrat houses along the road to the park.
I am always on the lookout for birds to shoot. Got this fellow with my 300mm (zoom lens that is). It is a migrating cedar waxwing. Not a good picture but the best he would sit for.
This young bird (I think it was a young cowbird) was running all over our campsite eating bugs. Like a young teenager, I didn't think he would ever get full as I watched him for over an hour as he devoured everything he could find. I also watched the Eastern Kingbirds catching bugs on the fly, but they were way to fast for me and my camera.
Time to take the rest of the day off in the shade.
This time it was Lake Thompson Recreation Area close to the home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie Pageant town of De Smet, SD.
The campsite we chose was very shaded and protected from the wind. People we talked to from Indiana there on a week long fishing trip were camping in one of the cabins near the lake shore really felt the wind.
The water in the lake was very high from all the spring rains they have been getting. Today the wind made the lake very choppy.
On the drive in before we got to the gate of the recreation area we came across this big old chunk of deadwood. It was twice as tall as I was.
We saw numerous muskrat houses along the road to the park.
I am always on the lookout for birds to shoot. Got this fellow with my 300mm (zoom lens that is). It is a migrating cedar waxwing. Not a good picture but the best he would sit for.
This young bird (I think it was a young cowbird) was running all over our campsite eating bugs. Like a young teenager, I didn't think he would ever get full as I watched him for over an hour as he devoured everything he could find. I also watched the Eastern Kingbirds catching bugs on the fly, but they were way to fast for me and my camera.
Time to take the rest of the day off in the shade.
