Aug. 12: Camp Activities

Just so you don't think we just sit around all day basking in the sun drinking umbrella drinks here's some of the stuff we've been trying to do to stay active.

The big sailor put his boat in the water one day.






Larry injured his knee back at Cumberland Lake. He does walk but doesn't like coming down hills so we are walking as much as we can between hills. Today, I decided to go on the small hiking trail here without him. I charged up my ham radio over night and headed out with water, phone, camera and radio. We had complete communication the whole time I was gone and I ended up on the shore just across the cove from camp. We waved to each other and I started back. Took an hour for the whole hike. Notice the two small logs between my feet. During my running back to the trail before the camera took the picture (10 secs), I saw that I was off to the side too far. I side stepped keeping my eye on the camera to get the right angle and nearly twisted my ankle on those two little pieces of wood. That would have been a long way to haul my ass out of that area. Of course, it might have made for a great picture.

Our ventures out on the big lakes have been fun. Both lakes support barge traffic but who knew we'd actually see one. We ended up seeing several. I wanted to run circles around them but Larry didn't think that would be a good idea - ha, ha. We stopped on the canal between the two lakes for lunch. Lots of activity here too with many different kinds of boats. The day we went to LBL, we saw a barge on this canal - now that would have been fun to meet that big boy on a narrow body of water. But there were other large boats to watch. We went to a local marina's open house and toured one of the house boats that they rent. For a mere $8000/wk you too could rent this 80' house boat complete with 6 bedrooms, full sized kitchen, dining and living areas; and on the top level was a hot tub and bar - not to mention the slide going off the back. During the off season, it rents for just $3000/wk.





Wappapelo Lake is our next step tomorrow on the road back to Wichita. This lake is located just north of Poplar Bluff, MO.