Arkies and Okies

The Central Oklahoma Geocachers held a spring fling and it sounded like a fun place to go for a spring weekend getaway.

We set up camp at the Beavers Bend State Park. The Mountain Fork River was dammed to create Broken Bow Lake and meandered through the state park and our camping area below the dam.

The theme for the weekend was the sixties.

Leon only wishes he could still move like that!

We did our share in dressing the part in keeping with the theme.

The first night we had a potluck in the pavilion in our Buckeye camping section. There were over two hundred people registered for the event. We were excited that one of the 31 cancelled their reservation and we got a spot at the last minute.

What a fun way to sign the log in for the chomp fest - on an apron!

Beavers Bend is well-known for the trout fishing. The stream is stocked every week but I could not find time to fish and forgot my waders.

We decorated our campsite in keeping with the theme. We may not have won the contest but I will guarantee that we were the most authentic. We even had some Grateful Dead music adding ambiance.

And let's not forget our olfactory senses - so we burned some incense.

Some folks went all out for the fashion show held at the ampitheater alongside the river. 

Why yes, we did participate - had the only birkenstocks in the group! We only knew the day before that we were going so we did not have time to sew or order an extravagant costume.

There were seventy temporary caches hidden throughout the park by those attending. We did find 35. It was fun to look at them all after that contest ended. I think I got some new ideas!

This was the view from our hippie pad..not bad! It was especially nice the final night we were there after the barking dogs left. We enjoyed s'mores over the neighbors' campfire while watching the full moon rise above the river.

Our spot alongside the river was level and in the summer there would be plenty of shade. I would return to Beavers Bend, perhaps with my waders the next time.