Kiptopeke State Park

We finally got to cash in on our promise to go camping for Tim's birthday on Thursday 8/6/09 and Friday 8/7/09. We had to do laundry and pack and got a late start. So we showed up to the campsite in the dark, in the rain and set up the tent we gave Tim for his birthday. Thankfully the sun was shining in the morning!


Tim made us pancakes, sausage and hot water for coffee. The girls had fun waiting for their breakfast.


Tim making his world-famous pancakes - but outside on a cast iron griddle.


The girls were being goofy. Luella is two going on thirteen. She got really moody that she couldn't eat breakfast that instant.


She got over it eventually and pretended to drink coffee with Tim.


Kyla and the girls having fun in the great outdoors.

Kiptopeke State Park is on the peninsula across the Chesapeake Bay from Virginia Beach. One side is the Bay, the other is the Atlantic Ocean. To get there you have to cross a three bridge/two tunnel combination that is 19 miles long. One benefit is that there is pier fishing for $3 with no fishing licence needed. So Tim took Luella fishing for the first time!


Tim teaching Luella how to fish.


Luella caught one! As she's holding it up to take the "I caught a whopper" pose, it moved and she freaked out a little bit. It was a black sea bass.


Tim showing her how to take the hook out and send it back into the water to get bigger.


Luella got an ice cream for catching a fish!


Luella was too busy eating ice cream to notice that her pole caught another black sea bass. Tim reeled in this whopper!


The girls busy playing.

Tim wondering why his pole isn't catching anything.

Tim checked in at the office and found out that we made our reservations for a week later and it was booked Friday night 8/7/09 so we had to leave. We asked if there were any other available State Parks around and they told us that Occoneechee State Park was just down Highway 58 and if you get to Clarksville, you've gone too far. Sounded close, so we packed up around lunch time and drove to get there.

Here's a video of Luella catching her first fish!

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