Twin Lakes, Monday June 25

After breakfast we decided to visit Sailor's (Saylor's) Creek Battlefield State Park. This battlefield is of the battle that was fought 72 hrs before Gen. Lee's surrender of the Army of Virginia. We arrived at The Hillsman House only to find it closed and no operating hours posted. After we looked over the area and were about to leave a State Parks person arrived to do maintenance. He asked if we wanted to see the house and of course we said yes. He gave us a very good tour of the house and description of the battles.

Since we were in the area of Bear Creek State Park we decided to take a look at it and see if we could camp there. From the online information it sounded like our almost 30' rig was to large. It is. The ranger said they have had rigs leave with bent bumpers dented sides and other damage. This campground was also built by the CCC and is quite small. However the lake front recreation area is quite nice and looks like it would be a nice place to kayak. One of the staff told us that you can get up some of the feeder creeks and see a lot of wild life.

We decided to go to Farmville on our return and stop at the Wal-Mart super center to pick up a few items. The trusty GPS took us to the old Wal-Mart location but a mile or so further on the same road was the Super Center. We did a little shopping and headed back to camp. After a late lunch we to Prince Edward Lake which is one of the Twin Lakes that make up the park. We spent about 2 hours paddling around the lake shore and going up the feeder creeks as far as we could. I attempted to get out of my kayak to move a log and realized that the water and muck were much deeper than I had guessed so I abandoned that idea and we returned to the main lake.

More thunderstorms over night with a lot of heavy rain. About 3 AM I woke up and decided to check that all was well. Wel lit wasn't. There was not enough pitch in the awning for the water to drain off so I dropped one end and several gallons of water spilled out. I only was a little damp. Scared the heck out of Logan and he jumped on the bed for protection from Suzette.