My family and I went to the creek preserve hiking. This place was new to us. We just heard about this place yesterday, at the canyon hiking check-in counter.
It took us a 45-minute drive to get there from our house.
When we arrived at the office, nobody was there. The official homepage says it opens from 6:30 am every day. We purchased an annual pass so we didn’t need to pay for the admission fee.
In the trail, we didn’t encounter any humans, but did encounter a whole bunch of wild animals. We were greeted by a pack of deer and javelina in a different places.
There were many huge and old trees giving the trail nice shades. It reminded me some scenes from the movie “My Neighbor Totoro (1988”).
However, it was a bit freaky that we didn’t not encounter any other hikers. We didn’t take chance to go all the way to the trail and turned back to the office.
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When we came back to the office and passed it by, the window blinder was now open. When I took a close look of the inside, there was a female worker and her cute small dog in the office.
The worker came out from the office and greeted us. She was friendly and kind. When I mentioned we didn’t go all the way to the trail, she said there was nothing for us to be afraid.
According to her, there should be wild animals such as javelina, deer, mountain lion, and snake. As long as we try not to attack them, they should be calm and pass by us without harming humans. The creek is dried up right now, but in next month which is the monsoon season, it will be filed with water.
So we decided to try again. This time we headed to all the end of the trail.
She was right. We encountered many animals again, but all of them were pretty calm.
It took us about two hours to explore all the trail. It was a nice hiking. We will definitely go back there soon.
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