More Walnut Creek

We explored more of Walnut Creek Metro Park on Saturday, this time all of us on foot. Weather has been warm and starting to get a bit dry again, so we had a lot of fun in the cool water.  Since the creek flows over a lot of bedrock there is not much mud to mess of the water, although there is a lot of algae right now.  We did see something creepy though (besides the poison ivy): we found black masses of harvestmen (daddy longlegs) under ledges on cliff walls (look above Katie's head in the first picture). If you disturbed them they would scatter in all directions. OK, daddy longlegs are not venomous and they can't even bite people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvestmen), but it looked like something out of a scary movie.  Today we went bowling - it was fun.