Camping at Arroyo Seco.

First camping experience for Riley (Gillou's view of things here), Aéma and Eustache, on June 14-15th. I had picked a campground for car camping not too far from San Francisco (130 miles): Arroyo Seco.


Campground neighbors found some crawdads in the creek (later on, they "freed" them in the grass...)



We arrived in the evening (due to the b-day party below), so we had the golden light to check out the lake by the campground.



There was poison oak around the trails, so it's better to carry the kids.



Building the tents, and playing with the head lamps: a big hit with the kids.



Chef Gillou took care of grilling the burgers on the BBQ. Chef moi forgot to bring salt for a tomato salad which really called for it.





The kids slept, even though it was chilly in the foggy morning.



We knew going there that the Arroyo River Gorge was closed due to the Indians Wild Fire (both areas are connected by the Arroyo Seco-Indians Road). We called the campground a few times, and they told me to come down anyway. But they ended up kicking us out on the Sunday morning to make room for firemen who wanted to do "controlled burns". Instead of playing at the day use area in the scenic part of the forest, we had to go, in the words of the campground employee, "by the green bridge, that's where the Hispanic go."

It was definitely not as pretty, but kids had fun, and they want to go camping again!