Aug. 15: Peoples Creek on Wappapello Lake, MO.

Again, we have arrived at another beautiful campground. The Corp of Engineers build really nice places for us to camp. However, this particular site that we are on is a wheel chair spot. We feel bad about taking this site but had no idea when we booked it that it was wheel chair accessible. It was also listed as "lake front" camp site. As you can see from the photo, it's more like "lake view" property. You can see the jet ski in the parking area down by the lake.

The whole area is really very well kept. The swimming area has a long sand beach with a cement wall and benches between the beach and the road. The boat ramp has two ramps complete with a courtesy dock between them.

We went into Poplar Bluff the first night to eat (Pizza Hut) and pick up some prescriptions from Wal-Greens. After a minor falling-off-the-bike incident with my bike yesterday (the bike's OK), I stayed home today (and took drugs) while Larry went back into town to get the oil changed in the truck. Tomorrow we head out on the lake - if my neck will hold up my head that long.

I did a little research on the lakes we've stayed at to compare the sizes at conservation levels:

Wappapello Lake: 5,200 surface acres
El Dorado Lake: 8,000 surface acres
Cheney Lake: 9,500 surface acres
Barren Lake: 10,000 surface acres
TenKiller Lake: 10,900 surface acres
Lake Ouachita: 40,060 surface acres
Tablerock Lake: 52,300 surface acres
Barkley Lake: 57,900 surface acres
Cumberland Lake: 63,530 surface acres
Lake Kentucky: 160,300 acres (not sure which level this is)

Mostly this was for my information only.

The way I see this, we should see all there is to see of this lake in one afternoon. The water here has been glass smooth - remember, Kentucky has no wind. So on the days we don't jet ski, Larry also can't sail his boat or fly his kite. Just quiet days of swimming and bike riding and/or walking.

We also don't have the Olympics here. Last week, we barely had NBC on the local station (we can't get them on satellite unless our local stations send DirectTV a letter stating we can't access them - about a 45 day process). This week all we can get is ABC. We watch the satellite stations during the day that show the Olympics and see the reruns from the night before. We're sitting around more campfires now. Larry bought a little electric chain saw last week at Wal-Mart so he's been cutting us up some nice size logs and splitting them for our little fires.