Rumpled Water

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Date: October 29, 2023

The morning walk was sluggish and a bit painful as we worked some kinks out of the OFM. We never identified where the kinks came from but by noon we had them gone. That was good enough for us.

We spent a LOT of time trying to schedule overnight campsites on our forthcoming run from Decatur Al. to Rockport Tx. It is a comfortable four day tow but a hard three day. We got our reservation at Goose Island State Park near Rockport easily but the stop just before that starting the fourth leg of the trip is proving to be a terror. We have several emails out asking locations for an overnight spot with or without services. No reply yet on those requests. We will see what we have to cause in the next couple of days.

Back to the walk. We did have an event at a spot next to the water. Something was slowly dripping from a bush limb hanging out over the water. The ripples looked nice and pretty. So we grabbed three shots. Two of them came out decently sort of. The water was clear and very still where the sunlight was reflecting on the ripples. So we had an idea of what to expect......yeah right as it turned out. We did get a couple of neat pictures of ripples but nothing like we expected. This was clear water with small drops of liquid from the shrub limb into the water where the light shined on the ripples. And it was bright sun hitting the area. We have no idea what caused these pictures to look so dark but we really appreciated the effect the situation caused.

RIPPLE ONE

RIPPLE 2

And this was definitely the bright spot of the day. Tomorrow we need to work harder at getting a route to Rockport worked out for the Teams to get rolling about November 7/8.

We are sure we can find some fun back at the Texas Gulf of Mexico beaches.