Big Event On The Way

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Point Mallard Campground

Date: June 12, 2023

The OFM awoke to a yuk feeling after an exciting night of tossing and turning for no good reason. But it was a cool bright morning so we did get in a nice walk on the sore left foot. The temp was cool enough for a light long sleeve shirt and a gentle breeze caressed our feel good mood. The path we chose was the surfaced one that starts at the campground and runs between the road to the campground and the golf course. It is especially good for decrepit OFMen like the fool writing this blog.

As we left the campground we passed a small area of woods that had not been cleared like the area we showed you a blog or so ago. Here is what it looked like before the major clearing effort.

That must have been a real mess to get cleaned up.

Along the path is an old tree that the OFM has thought would fall “any moment for the last several years. But it is still dead and standing.

And in any cluster of growth it can grow in there is a vine that jumps into the fun of things by putting out these pretty yellow and white blossoms. The really fresh ones seem to glow for about four days then slowly fade away.

Near a part of the golf course were a herd of turtles laying eggs in the mowed grass on the golf course and in the ditch next to the walking path. The turtle count would have been about a dozen. It was interesting to see.

By the time we made it back to the Castle we had done about two miles of gentle walking and the OFM was ready for a break.

The July 4 holiday is looking like a big event here in the campground with a golf cart parade and prizes for several best decorated carts in the parade. We are not competing in that fun. Usually there are numerous BBQ competitions between groups of folks that are camping in one of the over 200 campsites in the campground. So when it all comes to full roar it is a large event with probably near to 1000 folks from the campground alone, much less the rest of the Point Mallard Park folks and public events over in their area. We are going to stock up the Castle and stay out of the way if we can.

The weather is supposed to be cool at night and warm in the afternoon so it should be good weather for the next few days for trying to have tooooo much fun.