September, 2025
Even when I’m staying in a campground that I’ve been to before, during the first day or two of my visit, I always take a walk through the campground, just to see what’s what, and who’s who, and keep my eyes peeled for a wonderful campsite for future use.
I love the Wynoochee campground. I love the trees and the moss and the birds and understory plants of the Pacific Northwest. The air here smells so rich and fresh.
There are paths throughout this campground (and surrounding it as well), but sometimes I just had to venture off the path (I know … I’m not supposed to do that!), but sometimes I just had to. In the photo below, I was simply taking a photo of the area, but then I noticed the end of a log in about the middle of the photo. What are those white dots on it?
So, yes, I sneaked off the path walked most of the way over to that log. Those white dots are some sort of fungus or mold? Do any of you readers know?
Then I scurried back to the path! Oh my word it’s so beautiful here. And so quiet. Yes, I could hear some little bits of noise from other campers, but not much. The forest in these photos is inside the campground, in a forested area that is in between the campsites. The National Forest Service did such a glorious job of creating a campground AND leaving the wildness intact.
Ah, but do you see the stump in the photo above, right in the middle? Ok, that drew me off the path again, just to get the photo below. But this time I stopped about half way to the stump and just zoomed in for the photo below.
More little beings, portions of life, lichen, algae, fungi?
I got back on the paved path, and this time I stayed on it! No more straying!
Eventually that path led all the way through the forest (it was a long path) inside the campground, and eventually it ended at a spot where it connected with the blacktop campground road, and then I just walked around the roadway perimeter of the campground. I like to see how other people camp, though I don’t take many photos of that because it might be intrusive. I’m also looking for future campsites. And gosh did I find some on this walk-about! Let me show you photos of my favorites … private, wooded, quiet campsites all of them. Each photo below is of a different campsite. I would (or wood) be happy to be camped in any of them.
Starting with the campsite above, this one above and the ones below all have a bit of view through the trees to Lake Wynoochee.
Just after I walked past the campsite above, with the fiberglass Oliver brand trailer in it (very similar to my Escape fiberglass trailer), I happened to turn my head to the left to stretch my neck and … whoa, who’s that through the trees over there? Why that’s Towhee the Trailer and the big white truck. 🙂
And then I kept walking around the blacktop road circle.
The campsite below, #34, is my absolute favorite. I’ve tried to reserve it, but I never find it empty for a full 5 or 6 days in a row. Everyone else loves it too. You can see why. It’s private, and it has a gorgeous view of the lake.
Besides the view down to the lake, this campsite has a view to the north, to the mountains, up into a bit of the Olympic Mountains.
I left that campsite and continued walking. Here below is a 5-minute video of my walk from that campsite in the photo above and then on around the last of that northern most part of the campground. Turn your sound on so you can hear the squirrels and the birds. 🙂
And then I was back home at my campsite.
By that point, it was late in the afternoon and I figured my day was done. It was not! The last two photos below will give you a clue of what transpired right outside my trailer door. I’ll show you more in a future blog post. This fellow was an acrobat!
