Not so primitive camping.
Since I had a couple of days off, and the weather was going to be nice, at least as nice as it can be for late January in south Arkansas, we made last minute arrangements to go camping about 25 minutes away.
This is a primitive campsite through the Arkansas Forestry Commission. All we had to do is select a spot from their map, and then call them and tell them how many nights we wanted to stay. It was that easy, and without paying.
Of course we carried everything we needed. It was only for one night, but since we haven't been camping in a month, it was nice to get out of the house.
We found some trash around the campsite, so we gathered it up, and took it away with us when we left. My motto is to leave a campsite cleaner than we found it.
Near the camp was a spot where hunters had setup to clean deer. I think this isn't legal to do here, so I have reported it.
We also found a couple of deer carcasses, a skull, and a hoof.
After we setup camp, explored around our campsite, and cleaned up the trash, we went hiking at the northern end of White Oak Lake, where White Oak Creek continues on it's way after passing through the dam.
We went back to camp and got ready for dinner and a movie by the campfire.
Someone had left a doll head, and we had some fun with it.
The doll head enjoyed the movie, but not the fire so much.
All-in-all, one of our best camping trips. Too bad it was only for one night. We will definitely come back here again.
