Matilija Creek

Today we hoped to go geocaching... instead we climbed over and through 7 bodies of water. I say bodies of water because one might think it is a river while others might argue a stream or perhaps a bubbling brook. Anyway you slice it, it was cold rocky and took up almost our whole day. We are not to sure how long our hike was maybe 5 miles, but it took us hours. We would cross the stream only to find 400 meters later we had to cross it again. Last weekends rains kept the current strong and we both got wet. This hike was scenic with an abundance of trees and wild life. Our route lead us further and further from our cache, apparently we took the road less traveled (perhaps this is for a reason.) We really enjoyed the area, it was quite and beautiful. we tried to make to the cache at the end of the day but we were really just too tired and we decided to hike back to the car. A small bird coupe was along the side of the road which housed geese and peacocks. We stopped to watch these birds as they danced around with their tails in the air. This was our first trip to the Ojai area and enjoyed it's down town after our day of river jumping. Ojai lived up to its hippish reputation, we passed a RV that had painted on the side "Love lets us live" They called it their "Dream Ship" We will have to make it back here again sometime to get the Cache.