Alright we are camp 248 at Illinois State Beach Park. This is just beautiful. So this is the front row. It goes on back here. It goes forever. But think of this front row of pines. What a great sight. And we're very close to the beach. Yes we are. COVID has got the parking lots closed. Nobody here. That was just really the first half. really first half. I gotta go through it. I gotta say I got water shoes on for something. I'm going to go through it. Next two weeks will be great for you. There you should bring our food down here. The rays are popping out so hard to those clouds. I'm going to go through it. I'm going to go through it. Good morning. Good morning. Beautiful morning in Illinois. Camp site 248. 249 to 50. Down to the left. This is just gorgeous. Really nice campsite. Nice tent areas. Ryan's in the divvy. 300 series are toward the lake. Those are blocked off for COVID. Hey, hi 360 here. We are on the dead river trail. A 2.1 mile loop at the Illinois Beach State Park. We are going to do half of it and then cut over to the Dune trail, which runs along Lake Michigan. And then pass the visitor center and hop on another trail or follow the beach up to our campsite again. So here we are. We camped at the very northern point of the southern unit where the camping is. Basically in the front yard of the decommissioned Zion-Micular Plant. Let's hope the soil is good there. But that's about 2 miles to get from that campsite down to the visitor center. So we'll have about a 6 mile. Good luck. There's a little observation deck up there. There's a lot of different insects in this park. I've seen a blue dragonfly. I've seen a green dragonfly. I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. I've never seen an elephant fly. Nature's karma. Isn't that a good breakfast food? Oh, it's picking up frogs. Oh! Oh! We have come to the end of our ability to hike the Dead River Trail. That is the Dead River there. It swings east toward the lake. And I guess it doesn't actually go to the lake, which is why they call it the Dead River. We got a lot of water here. Something got mulled over here. And we are off-path as much as we're on-path. What is that? That's the mall. Oh, yes. Well. All those coyotes last night. That's exactly right. Now we know what they were doing. Oh, you know bird tastes better off next to water. They call that foul. So we're going to head back, which doesn't happen very often. No choice. And pick up the Dune Trail from its start. And here we are on the more civilized Dune Trail. No trail of frogs. No impeding plants. Keep a little distance from the poison ivy. But we were just told by a family mostly of children that this trail is haunted. Family of children. All right. We are approaching the lake on the Dune Trail. The south is the end of the Dead River. I can see where the 60 hikes within 60 miles of Chicago had the height start off on the river trail. And then cut over here. It's kind of the best part of the park. So if that river trail was not flooded, then this would have been fine. But coming back on the Dune Trail, we came pretty close to where we stopped on the river. Except for those big coal plants on the south of us and the nuclear plant on the north of us. This is pretty gorgeous. Well, we can see our walk back. Very damn it.