Park #3 Cotton Hill

Our last couple days at Cotton Hill have been great - low 60's and absolutely no wind at all - not even a breeze. That gave us a great chance to use the kayaks on both Monday and Tuesday. I went out into the reservoir on Monday and paddled around this group of islands that are just offshore from the campground - you can see them in the sunset pictures I posted a couple days ago. It was really pretty out on the water, and there was literally not a single ripple - we very seldom see water this smooth, especially on such a large body of water. On Tuesday Dave put his fishing poles aside and joined me for a nice 3 hour paddle out to the same area, but this time we went all the way around the group of islands. We like to paddle really close to shore so we can see any wildlife - we heard some "scrabbling" on shore and saw two armadillos scratching around. They are SO bizarre looking! Plus we found THREE really nice fishing lures along the water's edge, so the afternoon was profitable from Dave's point of view. We pretty much stayed in the park both days and did stuff right there. Dave had caught three nice fish so we did a fishfry on Monday night - delicious! We bring our little FryDaddy from home and every few weeks give in and use it - but we put peanut oil into it, which is MAYBE a little big healthier (...we really don't care, to tell you the truth!). And then on Tuesday we had our second big campfire and sat out until really late (...maybe 9:00 or so!). It was really beautiful sitting out by the fire - the sky was totally clear and we could see a little quarter moon and all the stars.

Today is Wednesday, which for us means moving day. We really enjoyed our time at Cotton Hill and would definitely come back around here again. Very pretty park, beautiful sites, nice biking around the park, TONS of deer everywhere. We feel like this week we finally "hit our stride" as far as our trip goes - the first two weeks were not so much fun because of the weather, but this week was great. Today we moved further south, to Lake Seminole which is right on the Florida/Georgia border. We are spending this coming week at Seminole State Park, and we're already very excited about it - I'll put some pictures in my next post, but I can tell you right now that is another gorgeous park, with our site right on the edge of the water again. SO hard to realize that tomorrow is Christmas Eve day...