Camping - Otter River

The next few blogs will be from our trip. Sydney and I went camping for a week in Mass. and NH. Jon joined us for two nights as well. We stayed at Otter River State Park in Winchendon, Ma and then Bear Brook State Park in mid-NH. Apparently, all state parks must be named in the pattern of "animal" + "body of water." We loved sitting around the fire each evening and spending our days hiking and swimming - we did have a little scare which I'll write about soon....

Sydney stands by her "drip-castle" on Beaman Pond at Otter River.

While the water was still a little cold there was plenty to do beachside.

"Sally" was our salamander that we caught and kept until the boys who were using salamanders as bait left the pond. I brought along a book of amphibians and reptiles and Sydney was really interested in looking up the frogs, salamanders and snakes we saw.

This was a fine trail, but somewhere along the way I realized that Sydney just wasn't enjoying herself. When I asked her about it she explained that she didn't see the point of hiking if there wasn't a mountain involved.


Sydney and Jon at the campsite at Otter River.

Mommy and Syd roasting something over the fire at Otter River - its either hotdogs or marshmellows.