Sometimes Plan B Is Pretty Good Too

Day 136  | Kenlake State Park to Ft. Heiman Cove  |  2.9 Hours  |  18 Miles 

The Kenlake State Park Marina has an on-site restaurant known for its homestyle breakfasts. Normally Barry and I don't do a large breakfast. In fact, we can remember only three other times that we've gone out for breakfast while on the Loop. For me, the lure of country ham was very enticing. It is the ultimate comfort food and always brings back memories of visits to my Grandma's house. The meal was perfect and, stuffed to the gills, we cast off and said goodbye to Kenlake, We were back on Kentucky Lake and heading south to Tennessee. Several white pelicans, still an oddity to us, floated in small clusters. We began to see daymarkers (permanent structures) along the way in addition to the floating bouys. Considering the water depth in excess of 50-feet, the amount of structure above water (20 feet, plus), and the depth driven into the lakebed, these had to be some long poles.

Along the left shore is Land Between the Lakes National Park, so its undeveloped. The shore today featured several areas where water-level caves have been carved out of the rock face. On the right shore, residential development started showing up in this area. Huge houses with large lawns popped out of the trees. Barry was excited to see one of his favorite birds -- a helicopter. This Blackhawk passed overhead. He is partial to Osprey.

When we started out this morning we had an anchorage in mind, but learned that it is a wildlife preserve and off-limits to anchoring. We quickly identified a Plan B, and cut our planned day a bit short to pull into Cypress Creek/Fort Heiman Cove. We couldn't have been more pleased with this beautiful spot to spend our evening.

The herons provided the entertainment for an afternoon spent on Fiberglass Beach. There was also a little reading and napping ... and a lot of sweating. The temperature again reached 90 degrees, the high humidity made all our leather seating surfaces sticky, and our nice morning breeze disappeared by the late afternoon. This is October, right?

We finally relented and turned on the generator for the evening so that we could run the air conditioners. We had no internet service in this anchorage so we pulled out a DVD and watched a movie before calling it a night.

Tomorrow's destination is Pebble Isle Marina (TN) where we will pick up about 500 gallons of diesel. Capital One will love us.