Today was a another day of driving. It was a 40 minute drive to chattanooga to see the choo choo, but unfortunately we didn’t see it. But we did go to the Maple Street Biscuit Company which specialises in biscuits and gravy for breakfast. Biscuits in America are similar to scones. I chose the mushroom gravy, and while nice, it was very spicy. Mike had a egg waffle thingy.

It was a 3.5 hour drive to our next stop at Chattahoochee Bend state park, but it somehow took us 6 hours. Falling asleep in a Walmart carpark for 45 minutes didn’t help. So we didn’t arrive and set up camp until after 6pm.

We are camping in the forest, massive tall trees all around us. There is a bush walk right from our door step, so after a quick dinner of salad wraps, we ventured into the forest. The forest floor was carpeted in mulched pine needles and even though it was damp, it wasn’t mucky.

We walked for about an hour, listening to the sounds of the forest. Woody building his home, and squirrels rustling up and down trees. 

Mike stopped to point out a tree trunk that was all scratched up. “This looks diseased,” he said. 

“Maybe it’s be scratched up by a bear,” I said. Right at that moment, something big darted from the bushes. I screamed, Mike laughed. We had frightened a deer!

On our way back, we saw the deer again, just off the side of the path. It was just a Bambi. We stopped to watch him as he ate. Then he spotted us, and looked at us curiously, wondering what we were. He’d eat a bit more, then look at us again. Then we noticed his mother not too far away. Neither them seemed to worried by us. I managed to get a good close up shot.

It was after 8pm by the time we got back, had showers, and got to bed.