Back To Walking Finally

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Date: February 14, 2024

Today is the anniversary date of when the OFM got drafted for his all expenses paid tour of south Vietnam in 1969. He served with the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airmobile as combat infantry.

The local area had dried out enough and the temperature gone up enough to be time for a pleasant walk and we took the opportunity for a nice 2.6 mile walk this morning. It was great and felt really good to get out without having to dodge mother nature so much. Here is where we turned onto the path system from the campground.

Shortly after getting going we passed the location of the dry two days ago drainage from the campground. Today it had 3.5 feet of water in it according to the levels posted for the lake. The change was dramatic we think.

Not much farther along the shoreline was the first egret already food hunting in the newly flooded part of the lake. From the way the egret was acting like there was minnows already already back up into the upper end of the creek.

Along the trail ia benches once in a while to rest and enjoy the scenery. This is the view from a convenient one this morning.

We were surprised that the OFM made the whole walk well since we had been missing lots of walks due to the weather the last month or so. But it was a welcome change for sure. We have a cold front due in for the weekend so we might have to miss some more walking. That is not a welcome event.

Our next big chore is to get the Income Tax mess completed to our satisfaction.

In the meantime we will be kicking back and enjoy just being still here to enjoy blogging.