The old farm
The Homeplace is one of the sights at LBL. It’s a working farm from the 1800’s. The log buildings are 170 years old and have been restored and preserved. We found it interesting that the log house designs were to keep it cool with lots of porches and breezeways. It was an active farm for 150 years and then saved at LBL. It was a fun visit and we were luck to be able to see the tobacco barn operating where they smoke the tobacco leaves for 6 weeks to cure it into chewing tobacco or snuff….smoked tobacco?
Wildlife on the Loop
We have seen a lot of different wildlife along the loop, cruising and at anchorages.
We saw a bald eagle yesterday and have seen a number of eagles nests along the waterways.
The deer come out in the evenings to munch on the tender grasses along the shoreline as the water recedes to the winter pool level. We’ve seen lots of does and a few bucks. Bow season started here about a week ago.
We saw a large water snake sunning itself on the rocks of the Cumberland and the next morning I had one curled up on the transom with the fender rope.
Plenty of ducks, geese, turkey vultures and gulls along the waterways.
The Blue and White Herons and Egrets are commonplace all along the rivers and lakes, fishing from the shore and shallows. These Herons create quite a squawk when you disturb them.
We had a fox cross the road in front of us in Grafton.
And these last few nights we’ve had the coyotes yipping and howling in the woods nearby…an eerie kind of sound.
We saw a bald eagle yesterday and have seen a number of eagles nests along the waterways.
The deer come out in the evenings to munch on the tender grasses along the shoreline as the water recedes to the winter pool level. We’ve seen lots of does and a few bucks. Bow season started here about a week ago.
We saw a large water snake sunning itself on the rocks of the Cumberland and the next morning I had one curled up on the transom with the fender rope.
Plenty of ducks, geese, turkey vultures and gulls along the waterways.
The Blue and White Herons and Egrets are commonplace all along the rivers and lakes, fishing from the shore and shallows. These Herons create quite a squawk when you disturb them.
We had a fox cross the road in front of us in Grafton.
And these last few nights we’ve had the coyotes yipping and howling in the woods nearby…an eerie kind of sound.
Looper Shore Dinner Party
We had a couple of neighbors at our anchorage on Sugar Bay...Blue Angel and Adios II came in a couple of nights ago. We had spent time with Blue Angel when they were docked at Port Sheldon for the summer...we're both from Grand Haven and they had provided us some advice to calm our loop startup apprehensions. Adios II was anchored off our home dock on Spring Lake the weekend we left home and we chased them out to Lake Michigan as we began the loop. We called Adios out on the big lake....they'd been on the loop about 6 months....our reply was we'd been on the loop 3 hours!
....our first contacts with Loopers and here they are at our anchorage more than a month later. It's a smaller world on the Loop.
So it was also Matt and Sonya's last night camping at LBL so we had a nice get together at his camp site. Us three Loopers and the landlubbers. I'd caught a few fish and had a nice bunch of fillets, so we did our first Looper Paella on shore. Matt's special...chicken, ribs from the Paducah BBQ Festival and freshwater fish...turned out very tasty....just need some more soccrat on the bottom!
Twins will head back to GTB monday to install a new TV antennae on the boat then head back up the Tenn to our winter base at Aqua Harbor Marina.
Still lovin' it.....
....our first contacts with Loopers and here they are at our anchorage more than a month later. It's a smaller world on the Loop.
So it was also Matt and Sonya's last night camping at LBL so we had a nice get together at his camp site. Us three Loopers and the landlubbers. I'd caught a few fish and had a nice bunch of fillets, so we did our first Looper Paella on shore. Matt's special...chicken, ribs from the Paducah BBQ Festival and freshwater fish...turned out very tasty....just need some more soccrat on the bottom!
Twins will head back to GTB monday to install a new TV antennae on the boat then head back up the Tenn to our winter base at Aqua Harbor Marina.
Still lovin' it.....
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