Twenty-two: 16 March 2009

Parked at Rocky Neck State Park, turn around at Mile Creek Open Space on Mile Creek Rd. Distance: 6 miles?

Taking advantage of a fine March day, we parked at the same place where we parked last time. The first eight tenths of a mile or so were on Rte 156 again, and I found a side trail that paralleled the road to a bit farther down to another trailhead on 156. so our time on it was shorter and even that wasn't too bad.

Soon we were on Mile Creek Rd, a road I scouted out last summer and it wasn't bad to walk on. A windy, hilly road with all sorts of old houses on it, a little creek crossing with old quarry nearby. Domino saw a lot of friends but only one was loose, a dog half her size that she did wanted no part of.

Traffic was light and offered little worry, save for the speeding BMW. there is school on this road and I guess it was kindergarten time because suddenly a lot of cars and SUVs were screaming by.

I piked a tick off of DOM and how often can one say that they took off a tick in Lyme- the same Lyme that the disease is is named after.

Our turn around point-chosen by time- was a place called the Mile Creek Open Space. We walked it a bit to find a quiet rock for lunch. This open space seemed to be more a buffer for complexes of large houses. Lunch was PB and J sandwich with some hot chocolate. I am experimenting with hot tea and hot chocolate in thermoses. last week the tea was real bad but today's hot chocolate was great.

We saw a turkey early in the walk and later we saw a deer crossing the road, she wanted to chase it.

On the way back we took a trail (Shipyard Trail ?) off of the second parking lot, along the tidal creek that marks the park's western border and then back to our lot. The walk went along the creek and then back up on a ridge with more evidence of quarrying.

Not exactly how far we went or how much time we spent doing it. Probably around 6 miles.