Despite the fact that I have been up and puttering since shortly after 7 am, I find myself still here in O'Leno State Park at 11 AM. Check out is at 1 pm, and I just might push it to the limit. I've spent most of the morning editing my trip plans back home to Anderson County, KY. This has served as a very good excuse to remain in these lovely woods . . .
I guess it's time to confess that I am taking a long way home in order to pick up a starling who needs rehoming. She's last year's baby, and the young woman who has been keeping her is about to move to CA, with a roommate who says "No birds!" Alex needs a place for her (as usual, baby starlings kept this long are too dependent on people to be released). She found me through the starling chat list (yes, there is such a thing), and I decided to help out.
Problem is that the bird and current stewardess are in So. Fulton, TN, which is somewhere between Memphis and Paducah, KY -- very, very far to the west in the KY landscape. So, I am in the process of making my way across the Florida panhandle to Mobile, AL, and north from there. I have choices about routes, some going through Mississippi.
Unfortunately (I mean no disrespect), my next stop is a KOA Kampground on the GA / FL line, and I find myself reluctant to leave this state park. KOAs are usually fine, and have everything from wireless to cable. But they are not in the woods.
At any rate, it is well past time to get on the road. More soon . . . .
I LOVE this blog! The pix of the flatbottom boat with propeller (swamp boat) used to be made in Tenn. by my cousins. We used one on the St. Joe River in MI. I urge anyone to take a ride if possible as this is THE way to view to backwaters and see wild life.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised by Sandhill Cranes building nests in Fla. I heard them fly over my sister's farm in SW MI yesterday. They have 5-8 inches of snow today.