It was a beautiful day and I wanted to go to a place that I had never visited. My husband took control of the car and off we went to Pasadena. He had wanted to check out a place called Fort Smallwood Park near where he works.
When we entered the park, we had to pay six dollars. As we made our way around the park, it started to become clear that we had just wasted our money. So, we parked the car and walked out to the beach.
We noticed that one fisherman seemed to be having a battle with a gull. It turned out, instead of catching a fish, he had hooked the gull. He can share his story of the one that did not get away.
This was the start of our adventure. Walking along the shore, we can across all kinds of shells clustered together. I had never seen this before and found it interesting.
The path around the marsh came alive with birds. Don and I ran from tree to tree trying to catch them all. There were red-bellied woodpeckers, chickadees, thrashers, downy woodpeckers and this cardinal munching on berries.
One of the funny experience was coming across this snake as I came out of the public restroom. There was another woman with her child still in the restroom. As I open the door, I notice the snake caught on the base of the door. When I got it free, it headed right into the restroom. The mother started to scream and I had to corral the snake back out the door.
My husband came to the rescue and helped chase it along the building. The snake caused a frog to jump out of hiding, which scared me more then the snake did.
We saw a deer, a fox and some squirrels. Before we got to the park, I did get to see a white squirrel that Don had talked about earlier.
This Smallwood adventure was worth more than the six dollars. I look forward to coming back.
