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and my favorite swimming hole. That's my friend Seiza giving it a try. She and her husband came down from Portland and we went up to Camp Comfort for a couple of days. William is in Port Townsend helping Beth work on the cabin.

From our house to Camp Comfort, we drive 10 miles on I-5, then head east 30 miles on a good 2 lane road up into the mountains, we turn off the main road and go 30 more miles to the camp on a small one lane forest service road that keeps going uphill along the South Umpqua River. We passed no one on the way in and one truck on the way out.

Remote, just how I like it.

Camp Comfort is at the headwaters of the South Umpqua River. The fork on the left is Black Rock Creek and the one on the right is Castle Rock Creek. The swimming hole is just to the right of this photo.

The swimming hole was formed by a split in a huge rock. It is hard to tell from the photo but it is about 25 to 30 ' deep.

There were all these amazing rock shelf's, it was like bench's and seats had been designed in.

The rock was an amazing structure to hang out on. Some of it was very green and Howard said it was serpentine.

Amazing rocks.

Amazing lizard - his tale was neon blue!

Howard, who is working on his masters in biology, classified aquatic insects to determine the health of the water. He added quite a few to his collection.

I did not swim much as the water was very cold. I did get all wet though and floated on the tube, Seiza lasted the longest of all of us.

The other really great thing about Camp Comfort is the huge old trees.

This is Seiza and Howard. You might recognize him, he was with the Flying Karamazov Brothers, they did amazing juggling, they were in the movie Jewel of the Nile.....he is also a hot ukulele player!

Peace.