Mountain Man RV Park
This park is a nice little quiet park and well outfitted. Once again, I failed to get a photo here and I don't know why. I had plenty of time.
We parked backed up to the West Fork of the Illinois River. The park was layed out in sort of a two part park. We are at one end where most campers are short timers like us. The other end is more seasonal and permanent campers. The park is located on the western fringe of the Redwood forest and has several huge Redwoods in the park. Ditto and I were walking around the camp road loop when I noticed several big pine cones on the ground...I mean BIG pine cones. So, I picked one up for a souvenir and just as I did, a guy came driving in a black pickup. He circled on around the loop and stopped at his campsite just a couple of sites down from the shower house. Later, the guy came over and said he had noticed me picking up pine cones. My first thought was perhaps it was against the law. But then, he asked if I wanted a rock souvenir and that he had some in the back of his truck. Then my thoughts went to Lucille Ball and The Long Long Trailer. So, I declined and we continued visiting for awhile with no more mention of souvenirs. Then just before dark, Ditto and I were checking out the shower house and we walked by the black pickup and the guy was there at his campsite. He raised the question about collecting rocks again only this time I was standing right by the truck. He reached in and picked up a pinkish colored rock about the size of large grapefruit and tossed it to me. I instinctively braced for the heavy rock. When I caught it, though, it was like a piece of Styrofoam. He laughed and explained it was pumice, a rock formed from a dust from volcanic action. It's mostly air. In fact, it will actually float until it becomes waterlogged. So, I kept it. If Lucy had collected pumice, Desi would not have had so much trouble trying to tow their trailer.
