Beautiful Day in the Poconos!

The day started abit chilly - in the 40's, but warmed up quickly reaching the upper 60's.  Ken and I left the CG around 11 to head to the Mt. Tammany Trail on the NJ side of the Water Gap.  We had hiked some of this trail earlier but did not get to the lookout of the Water Gap that is used on all the brochures for this area.  We had to see it!  Today we could easily find a place to park and then hike the trail up to the lookout.  What a gorgous view!  It really is breathtaking. 

What a gorgeous tree, but most of the brilliant tree colors were at
their peak on Friday and Saturday!

This is the view of the Delaware Water Gap seen
on most of the brochures!

Hard to tell how high above the water
we really hiked, but it was quite a way!

From there we headed to back to Dingmans Ferry Trailhead to walk back to Silver Thread and Dingmans Falls Again to enjoy the 2 1/2 mile hike and see these beautiful areas!  We weren't disappointed!  This time we hiked the stairs to the top of Dingmans Falls to get a view from above them.  Hard to imagine all the water that goes over those rocks.  So powerful!

Silver Thread Falls - the 2nd largest in PA

Climbing up the steps and trail to the top of
Dingmans Falls

This section of the falls is not visible from below.  It is
behind the largest part of Dingmans Falls!

The view after hiking to the top of the falls!

Back to Willie by 5 to slowly pack up a view things for our departure on Wed. morning, make dinner, and then have a relaxing evening.  Today was special.

Today we also made the decision of NOT heading to Florida in November as we had anticipated.  We had planned to go for about 3 weeks and leave Willie there until our return in Jan.  But, we really didn't want to leave family and numerous activiies going on during that time.  We have been blessed to spend lots of nights in Willie in 2012 (129, but who's counting) and enjoyed many of them with special friends.  Now it is time to be home for awhile!  We will look forward to 8 weeks in Florida starting around the 20th of January!  Still Celebrating Life Daily!!!!