Amazing Chimney Bluffs

We really enjoyed our time among the grape vines in the finger lakes region of New York, but it was time to move to our next campground close to the Lake Ontario coast. We are camped at Cherry Grove Family Campground, Wolcott, New York--another Passport America park with half-price rates during the week. That will fit our schedule well, and we started exploring our new home as soon as we got the motor home parked. We were driving toward Chimney Bluffs State Park, when we noticed a curious-looking vineyard.

We could see the supporting posts and the horizontal wires like the many vineyards we had seen in the finger lakes area. But these grape vines were shaped differently, and the grapes were bright red. Wait! These were actually apples trees! But they were planted about 18 inches apart and seemed to be trellised on the wires. We're going to have to do some research on this.

We arrived to our destination for an evening hike (and to make use of our New York state park pass) right on the banks of Lake Ontario.

We traveled up the beach until we got to the highlight of the state park--the chimney bluffs.

The bluffs were interesting to see from beach level, but we really enjoyed seeing them from above. So we hiked back on the rim trail that hugs the edge of the eroding cliffs. That's Denisa standing on the edge of the cliff in the upper right hand corner.

The state park says, "These bluffs are a large clay drumlin that was formed by a glacier, then eroded by wind and water." We say that they are another of God's wonders. Some of them are just a thin fin when we viewed them from the top.

And we could get quite close to that thin blade from our perspective on the cliff trail.

Towering 150 feet over Lake Ontario, the fins of Chimney Bluff made an interesting ridge all the way down to the water.

The sun was lowering in the sky and lighting up the west-facing bluffs in such a way that we just couldn't quit taking pictures. 

In each picture, you can see one of us in the upper right hand corner, just to give some sense of scale to these grand bluffs.

It was about this time that we realized that we were going to miss the sunset, unless we hurried to hike around the peninsula. We just made it off the cliff trail and across the beach as the sun was sinking into Lake Ontario.

From what we have already seen around our new home in Wolcott, New York, we are already convinced that we have wandered into more of His wonders. We think we're going to like it here!