Camping Day 71

Belle Isle SP
Saturday September 29, 2007

52 and clear when we got up this morning. Turned the furnace on to take off the chill. We visited with the group over coffee before returning to cook breakfast. We cooked pancakes, sausage and eggs on the outside grill. The rest of the gang brought over their breakfasts and we ate and visited.
After all was cleaned up we biked over to the car top boat launch to check out the water condition since it was blowing pretty good. There were no white caps since the wind didn't have much fetch in the little creek/bay.

We decided to go to Morattico to visit the General Store museum. We encountered a large number of bikers on our way over. Once there we found that the museum was a stop on the "Bike Virginia" route. The museum is very interesting with 3 floors of of stuff from the area. The ground floor was the store and is pretty much as it was when it closed some years ago. The upper two floors have a wide variety of displays and pictures from those bygone days.

Once we completed our tour it was off to Capt. Tom's Seafood in Bertrand. Almost at the end of VA 354. It was a long trip because we kept having to slow for the biker's. All of us bought some seafood. By the time we got back to camp it was about 2:30. Suzette and I decided to just kick back since we were to get dinner started about 4:30 or so. The rest of the gang went on a marriage encounter, well really a canoe paddle up Mulberry Creek.

While they were gone on their canoe trip Bob and Flo from the Springdale that was camped near by came over to take a look at our Fox. They were quite impressed. Bob told me they wanted to put a slide topper on their unit but there was nothing to bolt it to. They also wanted to install an entry assist handle but again there was no structure to fasten it to.

We got supper preparations organized and went to the launch are to get pictures of Glenn, Sue, Doug and Athena as they returned. Their marriages survived intact. They had a good time paddling in Mulberry Creek. At the canoe launch there was a couple that were camped a few sites from us with their Nash. I didn't get the model but it looked to be about a 25 footer.

Supper consisted of a great salad, chili-mac and corn bread prepared in dutch oven's, with pineapple upside down cake also baked in a dutch oven. We had way more food than the 6 of us could eat. As I was putting up some of the left overs we saw folks from a near by campsite arrive. They hadn't eaten so we invited them over to help us out. So now we have new friends Dave and Dottie from Gretna Virginia. We had a nice time visiting with them and they were very happy to have dinner with us.

Doug set up his telescope so we could look at start, planets, and the full moon. When the batteries went dead and we had seen enough of the moon we had another campfire at the Lilly's.