The Cascade Lakes Adventure

On Tuesday of our trip Bryan, Maria, Steve, Ty and I took the afternoon to explore some of the hard to get to lakes around Cultus. We ended up first at Irish Lake and decided to take a little dip.

Ty was so excited to wear a big boy seat belt in Bryan's big red truck

A gorgeous view of Irish Lake

Fun in the lake

After a long rough 4x4 excursion through the wilderness we made it to our last stop, Charlton Lake. Again this was a beautiful place. We took some fun group pictures and again enjoyed the water. This lake was a breading ground for little blue dragonflies and when you were in the water they hovered all around. But dragonflies were not the only things breading in this lake! We found out why they call the area mosquito alley. More about that later!

Maria and I have been best friends for 31 years. I love her to pieces and always enjoy our little adventures we go on. She always pushes me to step out of my comfort zone and try new things.

Ty and Dad have an air soft gun that they sometimes take out and shoot cans and stuff with. Ty decided that he wanted to take the gun camping and go hunting for bear and Elk with his dad. I don't much enjoy watching him play this way but his Dad says boys must be boys and he will be fine. Here the two of them had fun picking off dragonflies.

This group picture was taken by a timer and Bryan only had 10 seconds to run across these rocks to make the pose. I think it only took us 6 times to get it right and Bryan fell only once.

To end our day Tyler got to put his pole in the water for a little while. While fighting off blood sucking mosquitoes as the sun started to set Ty caught 2 pretty good size fish. I could have done without the fishing at this time but I stuck it out and got some pretty good pictures.

If you look closely at the back of Steve's shoulders you can see how much the mosquitoes loved him. And yes we did put on bug spray numerous times. Those things were just ruthless.

Fish #1

Can I throw him back in the water Datty?

Dad I think I have another one!

Fish #2

Bye Bye Fishies!