As we hike through the jungle, looking out for snakes and spider webs, I am reminded of the Planet Earth films of the jungle. It is almost exactly like it! The huge ferns, giant trees, tangled underbrush, and the wet look to it.
I have been up here many times, but for Adams, Alyssum, and Kailee, it is only their third time. We came up here to have a small picnic and just to show them what it is like up here. The first place we stop at has a small slide in the rocks where the younger kids like to play.
We hung out there while the kids played in the river. On the way up we found a huge spider web. We had seen it there before, but it had made a web to cross the trail. The trail is not exactly a manicured trail, as carabao and loggers go up and down the mountain on it. It has trenches all through it from the heavy rains that have occurred recently. When we reach the next crossing, we eat our lunch before we head up the trail to the big water fall. On the way up to the water fall, some of us stopped at the water tank, Dad and Uncle Dennis had installed, to look at it to see where it was. It had filled up to the overflowing mark, so we knew that it was working just fine. As we continued up the trail, which had steepened immensely, we hurried to see who could see the falls first. The water level hade gone down considerably, way less than right after a heavy rain. The rest of the way down was a lot faster than the way up, slipping and sliding and jumping made it lots of fun for us, though not exactly for Mom and Dad!
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