Lake Seminole SP (Oct 22-23)

Friday - It was a quick 70 mile trip here with a nice tailwind. Georgia, in most of their parks does not allow specific site selection. It is wise to get in early before the better sites are taken. We got site 18, which is quite nice and mostly level. John had a challenge finding sky for the satellite. After soup for lunch, we walked over to the fishing pier, which turned out to be unfishable due to thick weeds, and the boat launch looked good, but did not produce even a bite. This a really beautiful park and is really filling up for the weekend.

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Cottonhill COE (Oct 20)

Thursday - We got in about noon after a mostly uneventful drive. The only issue was when we missed a turn and had to make a u-turn at the entrance to Ft. Benning. They were very nice, though. While we were disconnecting the truck, John pushed the parking brake down too hard and broke the 12 V plug to the Brake Buddy. We drove to Abbyville, Al. and picked up a new one, and decided to have dinner at Huggin Molly's Restaurant. We both had their specialty burgers which were very good. After John got the plug fixed, he took a 6 wt. fly rod with a black foam hopper and fished the areas between heavy weeds. He caught three small bass. We are having to deal with Argentine ants here too.

Whitetail Ridge COE (October 18-19)

Tuesday - We had a nice five hour trip here and enjoyed the leaves, even though the color faded the further we got south and lower elevation. We got set up on site 34, which is real nice on a cove and relaxed after getting things organized and put away. After stuffed pepper soup for dinner, we headed down to the boat ramp and dock armed with our Duck Commander poles and Zoom finesse worms to see what we could catch. John caught a nice 13" spotted bass on his first cast. This was a good sign, especially since others fishing there said it was real slow. Sadly, this was the only ish for the evening. We will been to complete our dinner provision tomorrow.
Wednesday - We had washed the motorhome before we left, but it had a summer to collect grime inside and out, so we took advantage of the cool morning. Joan attacked the inside, while John was assigned outside. It really looks nice now and ready for us to enjoy the winter in it. In the evening we returned to the boat ram area, Joan with the same as yesterday and John with a foam hopper on a 6 wt. Joan lost a nice bass and John caught a few small bluegill and bass. Nothing to fillet.

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Whitetail Ridge COE ( March 28-29)

Monday - It was a good trip here with no rain. All set up in site 34, which is on a small cove. After going to Piggly-Wiggly for needed supplies, John went down to the shoreline with a Tenkara with a greeny and managed to catch several nice bluegill. We may need to keep some of these for dinner. The weather is great with the wind beginning to pick up. After supper we went down to the boat launch to fish from shore. Joan let John do the catching tonight with a sunshine bass and a crappie which we kept and John filleted. They were caught on the Tenkara using the chartreuse weenie.

Wednesday - We went out to eat at Ruby Tuesday's and had an ok dinner. I would not recommend the one here in Lagrange, however.  We took tenkaras down to the cove by our campsite and caught a few bluegill and one really nice redear sunfish (shell cracker). We kept two, that John filleted and added to the others. It was another beautiful day, but bad weather is on the way here Thursday, so we are leaving two days early so we don't have to drive the last stretch in the rain.

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Cottonhill COE (March 25-27)

The Friday - The rain finally let up enough to get finished packing up and leaving. We had rain most of the way, but stopped long enough for us to get set up in site 33. We extended our stay here by a day so hopefully we don't have to leave in the rain again. On the way here we were making a turn and the uneven road caused us to sway sharply back and forth and threw dishes on the floor breaking one. We will probably avoid some of the back roads in preference to major roads in the future.

Saturday - The rain has returned. We are watching "Passion", which is a musical rendering of Christ's last hours. Nicely done.  

Sunday - Have a blessed Easter. It rained here all day.

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Florida Caverns SP (March 23-24)

Wednesday - The trip here was longer, and about our max at 200 miles. Thankfully, it was uneventful and pleasant. Being a travel day, we scouted out a nearby restaurant and had a great dinner at The Oaks. Joan had beef tips and John had smoked pork chops. Yumm!

Thursday - Our friends Jim and Suzanne came over from Three Rivers SP to join us on the cavern tour. Although this is a relatively small one, it had some formations like "curtain" that we have never seen before. It was a nice tour, but required a lot of stooping and care not to bump noggins, so might not work for everyone. We took s hike with them down to the spring and John fished, demonstrating a Tenkara, but didn't see any action. In the evening, a storm came thru and we were under a tornado watch, but there was only rain with a little lightening. 

Friday - It rained thru the night and morning slowing our departure. John waited for lulls to get the slides squeegeed off, dried and pulled in.

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Manatee Springs SP (March 21-22)

GMonday - We had a good trip here despite fairly strong head winds. We got into a nice site (57), got set up, and drove to Betts Big T Restaurant for an excellent dinner. We then did a Walmart run, and after we returned and put things away, we walked down to the springs. There were more people there than we have ever seen, but that might be because of spring break.

Tuesday - We typically do our water exploring in our kayaks, but decided to to a river cruise by the local concession here. It was very relaxing and fun. The weather was perfect and the scenery awesome on the Suwannee River.

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