Half of the people that have stayed here for the winter have boats. It's been interesting to see how they try to get it all home. Most people that are coming back next year either store their boat or store their rig down here for the summer. There are a number of folks that take everything home with them. Jim took a picture of the 35 foot -5th wheel trailer with the huge boat --- 22 feet long being towed behind it. You can't see the white 550 Ford truck that is towing it all because it is hidden behind the dark colored truck parked in a site. This is what the husband was driving. The wife was driving a smaller truck towing a cargo trailer with more of their "stuff" in it. These people were going back to Wyoming. We heard the next day they made it 20 miles up the road and had flat tires on their boat trailer. They made it to Lubbock, Tx in the panhandle where they blew the engine in the 550 truck. It's not surprising -- the boat trailer tires were ancient and the truck was older and was being taxed way beyond its towing capacity. We are happy that we have downsized enough not to over tax our equipment.
There was a big bass tournament this past Saturday sponsored by the "Bass Champs" -- not one we have heard of before. The wind was so bad there were 3 foot waves and boats were getting swamped trying to launch. It was still dark when they were launching so Jim couldn't get a picture with any boats. Jim called all of these guys wimps (well he used another word that I can't publish) because they were really unhappy about the weather. I took a picture of the waves coming in to the dock. It reminded us of "walleye chop" on Mille Lacs but for small bass boats it was ugly.
I had to take some pictures of the pretty yellow flowers blooming around our trailer. One batch looked like a desert form of Dandelion. I don't know what any of them are called but there are also a couple of purple and orange kinds of low growing flowers in the park.
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