Three Kid Circus: Robinson's Creek

Our final trip of the summer was by far the best. It was our longest and furthest trailer trip yet. The first leg of the journey was to Robinson's Creek. We were extremely lucky to find a cancellation on the website a few months prior to our trip. Usually all campgrounds in the area fill up 6 months out, to the day.

Robinson's Creek is near Bridgeport, about a 7 1/2 hour drive, past Mammoth toward the back entrance of Yosemite. The kids did pretty darn well for being sardines in a can for that long. Our campsite was tucked into the trees, right on the creek. In front of our trailer was a paved road for baseball, and bike riding. Behind us was 25 feet of perfect explorable forest and then the creek. The weather was beautiful, mid 70's during the day but it did get down to the 40's at night. Campfires came in handy!

I myself am not a huge fan of cold, murky creeks. I know, call me silly! I was quickly dubbed the photographer to catch all the fun moments! The creek had a current going down the middle that the kids could ride down. All they had to do was jump into it, and they would quickly float downstream. The boys loved the rope swing. It was basically a rope tied to a tree that they could fling themselves off of into the water!

Getting used to the water

Iain showing them how it's done...

The happy group after their floating!

Rope swing

No matter where we go, baseball always manages to get worked in. Beach camping, forest camping...anywhere! The night below, they were playing and a family of deer walked through our campsite. This was day 3 of the trip so the kids were use to seeing the deer at this point. At first the kids were interested in the babies but soon went back to their game. How often do they play baseball with deer less than 10 feet away!? Obviously the deer felt safe!