We then drove over to Eleven Mile Lake State Park, a whopping 54 miles. We have camped here before and enjoyed it then as we did this time. It was’t too busy even though they had a fishing tournament on Saturday so we had a fairly secluded site. John then spent most of the afternoon fixing the electric cord while I walked around the loops enjoying the cool air and warm sunshine.
Saturday morning I explored an area just up the hill from our campsite looking for wildlife and picking up sticks for our campfire. We also walked down to the Marina but it was too early to see the fishermen coming in with their catch.
After our naps we decided to run down to Cripple Creek in hopes of taking a tour of an old gold mine. We drove the back country gravel roads, took a wrong turn and arrived in Cripple Creek too late for a tour. Oh, well, we still enjoyed our walk up and and down the main drag. There must be a dozen different casinos all around the business district and it is very popular with the much-older-than-us generation. We must have passed 10 folks in wheel chairs, toting oxygen tanks.
It was a perfect evening for a campfire while watching the harvest moon rise up over the ridge.
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