Hiking - Bandy Creek

 We left Fall Creek Falls late morning and got to Bandy Creek after lunchtime.  This is a much more remote campground, lots of open sites and there was no camp host.  Our site was level, back in and surrounded by trees.  Bandy Creek is part of the Big South Fork National Recreation area, a huge park that spans over Tennessee and Kentucky.  We had egg salad sandwiches and headed over to the Visitor Center. We got some maps and planned out our hikes for the next 2 days.  As it was still light, we decided to go on a short hike from the campground.  We headed out on the John Litton Farm trail and hiked for 2.3 miles roundtrip.  The beginning of the trail wound through some new, bright green pine trees and then it started to descend closer to a creek.  The more we descended, the more rock formations we encountered.  There were rocks and roots all along the trail, but also some really nice wooden walkways that went over creeks and other tricky parts of the trail.  There were two ladders to climb down or you could traverse down the extremely steep hills.  At one point, we walked along rocks behind a small waterfall.  Halfway through the walk, we let BenjiBear walk along on his own and that's when he got the zoomies and would run ahead and then zip back to us.  He seems to like hiking!  This worked out well because there were no other distractions and he always came back to us for a treat.  We were surprised by such a pleasant and diverse walk right there near our trailer.  Dinner consisted of a hamburger with mushrooms and onions, baked beans and a beer.  Yum!  We earned it.