Kill Creek Park

Recently, Pocky and I went on an adventure to Kill Creek Park in Olathe, KS. It's about 20 minutes down the county highway from where we live, and is located within a wealthy Kansas City suburb (so the park is well funded!)

When we arrived, we headed down what looked like a wooded trail that followed the shoreline of the man-made pond. Most of the bodies of water in Kansas are man-made- very much unlike Wisconsin!

Pocky loves to run through the woods- I took a video of her frolicking but it's kind of shaky- I'll have to film better next time. On our walk, we saw some strange looking bugs that seemed to be slowly killing a plant. They were an almost fluorescent whitish purple, and if you look really closely you can see they are fluffy little winged guys.

Unfortunately, the trail through the woods was pretty short, and soon we were on a paved trail through a prairie. If you click on the video, you can hear how noisy it was out there!

We went down to the edge of the water and walked on the rocks, where Pocky got a drink, before circling back around the pond through another stretch of woods. The rest of the walk was paved (*sigh*) but we met a group of dogs on the way which was nice for Pocky. We stopped on the little pier before heading home.

I decided to go back a different way, trying to head north and west, but somehow ended up southwest of where I wanted to be and almost ran out of gas. Luckily, we made it to Baldwin City (about 20 minutes from home)- otherwise we would have been stranded on a country road!