Kayaking - Burgess Falls

 We headed over to Cane Hollow Road and we were in the water by 9 o’clock.  John from Paddling Buds joined us and his little dog Chewy. The water seemed very still today but was still manageable. We paddled the 2 miles up to towards the falls and had to pull our boats on shore and walk along the rocks and shore up to the waterfall. As always, it’s a beautiful fall and we appreciate it even more knowing that we kayaked to it. We were the only ones at the base of the fall which was nice because within 30 minutes, lots of other people started to arrive. That was our cue to leave and we headed back downstream. With the water being so still, it’s a pretty paddle because of all the reflections. We were out of the water by 12 o’clock.  At camp we had leftovers for lunch and then later that night we had crackers and cheese and lemon blueberry cake for dinner, and ice cream for dessert. A healthy day - ha! I probably didn’t do enough paddling for all of those calories. Oh well.

And now here’s a warning about making campsite reservations. It gets to be very confusing when your reservations show the check-in day and the check out day.  You want to be sure that when you check out, you have a check-in day that same date so you have a place to park your camper. So after 30 some days of camp reservations, we goofed up. We were actually supposed to check out on Sunday and in our heads we thought we were checking out on Monday. Our neighbor knocked on the door that evening and said he had the site reserved for that night but luck was with us as our previous neighbors had reserved his lot for the night although he never intended to stay, he just wanted to avoid enjoy the lot during the day. So the new neighbor stayed on Site 55 while we were squatters on site 54. Fortunately, the new camper was nice AND he had a driving camper that didn't need set up. If that sounds confusing, that shows how we easily get confused when making our reservations.