Elk Neck, North East, MD.

A last miute camping trip seemed like a great idea, so we found somewhere fairly close, packed up, grabbed a friend and rolled out! We headed to a State Park on the North East tip of Maryland, only about an hour away from us. The town is actually called North East, and is filled with cute shops and antique stores. We had a good time going from shop to shop and even found a store that catered to pets that invited Tilda inside!

It was great to have Tom with us! I even got to be in a few pictures! He was also the fire master, without him it would have been a smoky, dark camp! I'm not great at keeping a fire...I think I just need practice. It's great to have a good friend to camp with!

We went to the beach and the kids swam and played at the recycled tire park. We hiked to the lighthouse and we had fun playing in the trees and making s'mores, which is the highlight of every evening in Narlee Camp! We found some really cool bugs too! Within five minutes of being at the site Kaleb found a milipede...he let it crawl all over him! He's a brave boy! We also found a velvet ant, which is really a wingless wasp, but is bright red and really cool looking, Aliza found it by the fire pit! Good looking out Ali!

Elk Neck has a light house and Sunday we took the hike to see what we could see! It was a pretty hike and the kids had fun inspecting the army worm nests and tempting fate on the cliffs.This light house is tiny! Only about two stories tall...I don't have a ton of lighthouse experience but I really thought they were all much larger, I guess if the light shines it gets the job done!Tomorrow morning we are off to Swallow Falls! I'll keep you posted!