Another Great Waterfront Site

Sunday May 19  – Monday May 20 2013
Site 44 White Tail Ridge COE Campground
LaGrange, Georgia

 

 

SUNDAY, May 19

 

We pull out about 9:30 for our 137 mile drive to another COE, this time at White Tail Ridge Campground on West Point Lake in LaGrange, Georgia.  I am very pleasantly surprised to find that I  booked a pull through site and boy is it a beauty.  We are in a little cul-de-sac.  We can launch the kayaks right off the site.  The lake water is seriously high right now apparently they’ve been have a LOT of rain.  The sites have concrete pads but the patios are dirt and gravel.  The ground is wet and muddy but dry weather is supposed to prevail for the 4 days we are here.

 

 

 

 

 

We are welcomed to our site by a Canada Goose family.  Well welcomed might be  a stretch but they are near the water trimming the grass so in my mind that they didn’t head out immediately is a welcome.     Papa is in the water just off shore or maybe it is Mama, I can’t tell.  But the three goslings are very fluffy and very busy munching.

 

 

 

 

 

Looks like the perfect kayak launch doesn’t it.  We can just keep the kayaks on the shore and jump in them any time we please.  SWEET!!That’s on the agenda for tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

MONDAY, May 20, 2013

 

I am up early and run for a humid run around the campground to find that there are a lot of sites but no real trails.  The only trail runs parallel to the park road from the gate house to the boat launch.  However nearly all of the sites, I’d say 85-90% are on the water.  There are 4 or 5 fingers out into the lake and campsites around the edges of each.  All wooded and very nice.

We have a slow leisurely morning with pancakes for breakfast.  Chocolate chip oatmeal this time.

It’s hot today.  Well it’s 86 today but combined with the humidity it makes us very lazy.  The sun is too hot for kayaking in the afternoon.

 

 

So we drive into LaGrange.  David has to get some prescriptions filled.  Sad to report there really is nothing distinctive about LaGrange.  It does have greatness looming on the horizon though.  A Brusters is being built here.  It’s OK that I got here too early for it since I still have JMC in my freezer.  I have to make it last a long time since Bruster’s are pretty scarce.  But I’ve written this one down in my "Where are they list” for next time.

 

 

 

When we get back to Winnona it is still too hot and humid to be out in the sun.   So rather than paddle, we take care of some online business.  We have finished reading Dreaming in Clay On The Coast of Mississippi, the biography of the Anderson family and I read aloud from The Art of Walter Anderson, a book put together by the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean City as the catalog for an exhibit celebrating the centennial of Anderson’s 1903 birth.  It was this exhibit which first introduced me to his work when I saw it at the Smithsonian Institution in 2004.  We are reading the essays written about the works of art on display and enjoying again his art, in pictures this time. 

 

 

The day just slips away as they do when you are relaxed and in no hurry.  Paddling gets put off until tomorrow.  We’re hoping for some clouds.  No rain mind you, just clouds.  There has been plenty enough rain here to take care of things for quite a while.