The weather report is for HOT so we decided to extend our time away from the ranch by a couple of days at a park that has a pool. So we canceled an appointment and spent another 45 minutes on the phone with the state parks reservation folks trying to extend a day at Belle Isle State Park and making a reservation for 2 nights at Westmoreland State Park. Westmoreland has a pool. You just gotta love the new software the state has for making reservations, buggy. We could do the reservations on-line but there is no way to pay the pet fee or take the discount for having a lifetime pass. Such is life.
After we arrived at the nearly full park campground we drove around to check out the car top boat launch, the picnic area where the concert, "Blowing the dust off", would be held. Looked at the new visitors center that is to open later this year and checked out the boat launch area for trailered boats.
After returning to the camper and resting a while we cooked supper and then headed for the car-top launch area to around Mulberry Creek for a couple of hours. We met up with an organized canoe trip that the park had and tagged along with them. We did paddle out of the creek and onto the Rappahonnock River before we turned to paddle back to the launch area. We saw a few Osprey's and jelly fish.
There was a welcome campfire that we attended that presented some information on the Civil War and had some relice's to pass around. This was followed by some-more's. You know those marshmellow, chocolate and graham cracker goodies.
It was a nice evening with most of the sites occupied and a couple in a site near us picking on guitar and bass.
Sunset at the car top boat launch
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