I needed to try out my new Hashing shoes. If you wear new shoes to the Hash you are required to drink a beer–poured inside said shoe. I’m going to try and keep that from happening!

I lived in Columbia from 1986-1997, and again from 2011-2014 (most of the time anyway). Yesterday I realized that in all those years I had never actually visited this state park. I’m not sure why, I drove past a kazillion times…

Sesquicentennial Park was constructed in the late 1930’s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

I chose the Sandhills Trail for no other reason than it was the first trail head I encountered after parking my car. It was only 2 miles long (a loop) so I also did a separate nature trail later.

Let’s get started!

The Sandhills trail circles the lake…

There were just a few people in the park on this Tuesday afternoon and none of them were renting boats…

A flock of big ass geese were hanging out lakeside…

Well maintained and mostly flat trails…

And nice walkways to navigate over the wetlands…

I was up the proverbial creek when I took this photo!

Shadow prints…