Heron Lake State Park, Los Ojos, NM

July 19th 2014

We headed out for another quick overnighter, this time we visited Heron Lake State Park, the drive up was beautiful, some really  nice scenery

The lake unfortunately due to the extreme dought in the state of NM is suffering from extremely low water levels. Luckily we were there more for the forrested campsites and not lake activities.

The campground we stayed at was the Blanco CG inside the park, it has sites with both electricity and water which was really nice having that close at hand, this campground also has free hot showers, just a short uphill walk away.

Our spot was secluded, spacious and the campground was very quiet, we had no campsites behind us, just open wooodlands, we enjoyed hamburgers on the grill that night and I even had a few toasted marshmallows for dessert.

Saturday night's sunset was spectacular

This was the first camping adventure for our kitty too, he did really well despite still being skittish outdoors, he enjoyed some time in his cat condo as well as hung out in the TD.

He will be brought along on many more adventures to come, we want to get him more acustomed to the wilderness, he really did seem to enjoy the car ride, he even knows to hold on when his daddy is driving the HEMI fast.

We are planning another trip here very soon, this is our favorite campground so far, nice shade, peaceful, nicely spaced sites, and great camp hosts.  The scenery on the way back was just as breathtaking

                                                                                                      So until next time.........

Abiquiu Lake, Abiquiu, NM

June 28, 2014

Headed out Saturday morning after calling to confirm we could still get a camping spot at the lake campground, they said if all the regular slots fill up we could be squeezed into the overflow area, so we made our way northward

We arrived at the campground about 1 hour and  20 minutes later,   We pull up to 

 the gate and asked if they had a spot available, and the attendant raised 1 finger and said they had "1" regular spot left...boy did we get lucky as the overflow area is apparently contains very primitive campsites. So we got our site info and proceeded to locate our campsite, it was located in the Chama Loop site # 18, we have an excellent view of the lake a good sized site with both fire pit and BBQ grill, we first backed began setting up, we later decided to turn everything around to be closer to the grill.

 

We decided to turn everything around to have the galley closer to the grill, this also helped block the wind.

 There was a very nice unobstructed view of the lake,  this was taken standing at the front of our campsite

We had grilled Hot dogs for a quick and easy lunch, and for dinner I had done some pre-vegetable prep, consisting of Potatoes, onions, bell pepper and some corn into resealable baggies for making our ground beef hobo packets for dinner, seasoned up some ground beef put that on the bottom added veggies and a little bit of water sealed and cooked on the coals. 

Packets cooking on the fire

 

Table is all set

  

The finished dinner, these were tasty, already have thought of a way to enhance them, next time going to add some cream of mushroom soup concentrate and cook them a bit less time

Corbin relaxing

The next morning when we got up we noticed the gnats had returned, we decided that to try and cook breakfast would only attract more, since it was not a far drive home we packed up and said goodbye to Abiquiu Lake...Until our next adventure...