Well, our adventure with Coop, Jer, me and our two friends Kaitlin and Jordan started off great! We started on the path leading us to the (we hoped) exciting 3 ponds. Coop was looking forward to getting into the water and playing around.
The ponds ended up not being what we had expected but they did have a surprise in them. The lower pond had hundreds of tadpoles in it. Brought back memories of my sister and I catching tadpoles in the ditch behind my Aunt Audria's house in the summers.
To get to the upper pools we took the hard way and decided to climb this rock over and up. Jer is making a foothold with his hands for Jordan to get to the next foothold. After Jo looked around he came back down, he helped Jeremy up then I hoisted Cooper up, then I made a foothold with my hands for Jordan to get back up then Kaitlin, then Jordan came down and made a foothold for me. We ALL made it up there.
The upper pools had frogs in them. I guess when the tadpoles "grow up" and turn into frogs they make there way to the "upper shady thrones" of the pools of water. These frogs were basking in the sun for a minute or two.
I held one of the frogs and it immediately did what frogs do and peed on me! Yuck!
The hike was beautiful...the red rocks in Southern Utah are awesome.....what we didn't count on was all the sand, sand and more sand that was most of trail. By the time we finished the hike we had a little shelf of sand underneath our toes that had made it's way into our shoes. But alas we made it there and back.
We are loving all the hiking that Southern UT has to offer!
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