Providence Canyon State Park

To celebrate wifey's birthday, we took a road trip to Providence Canyon State Park, Lumpkin, GA. The state park is abit different from the ones we normally go to. What is interesting is that it is a mini-canyon and it was formed due to bad farming practice in the 1920s. We took a 4-mile hike into the Canyon Floor.

What's special about this park is that it's a canyon, so it's really interesting seeing the view from the bottom of the canyon and then all the way on top, at the rim of the canyon - the sheer height of the canyons is amazing. I suppose it can't be compared to the Grand Canyon, but it's first time seeing any canyon at all! The multi-coloured rock strata are an interesting feature of the canyon. Depending on what minerals have permeated into the rock, the rock could be any shade of orange or brown (because of iron), or bear a lovely hue of lavender (because of manganese). My favourite is the lavender hue because it's so sweet and unusual.

In the evening, we left the park and crossed the stateline from Georgia to Alabama and stayed in Eufaula, this little city famous for bass fishing. Yay! We've been to Alabama! The next day, we did a cross-rural Georgia drive. Saw lots of pastures, cattle, farmland, Plains (Jimmy Carter's hometown) and many small towns. We had home-cooked Southern fare (fried chicken okra, etc) in a place called Americus, where baby was more interested in waving and gibbering to everyone than in having her lunch. Unfortunately, it was also here that she lost a pretty pink hairclip belonging to her mummy =( A heirloom!