Finally Some Camping Pics!
Here is our camp site at Tubbs Lake. We camped on the island, which we later figured out is where people go to not only camp, but party. We heard loud music and loud talking until all hours of the night. The spot we picked was a walk up site. Which meant we had to walk up and down this hill with all of our gear.
That is our car with the Kayaks strapped on top at the bottom of said hill. There were 2 walk up spots on top of the hill. The other was empty, so we had the whole hill to ourselves. I took to calling it the duplex. We stole the other sides picnic table to put under our tarp, so we had one under and one out.
The reason we took the walk up site vs. a more accessable site was the view.
It was the only site that had a clear view of the lake. It was really awesome at night when the almost full moon was reflecting off the water. As a matter of fact, the moon was so bright you hardly needed a flashlight to find the bathroom.
Tubbs Lake is part of the Martiny Chain of Lakes. It is several lakes all connected by channels. We had a boat launch just down from our duplex and could get right in the water. We went across the mighty Tubbs in the morning, down a series of channels and back again.This area was all no-wake, which was nice.
In the afternoon we went the other way around the island through the channels and a couple of smaller lakes. There are channels going every direction and you could spend days out there are still not see it all. And get lost if you are not paying attention.
We saw quite a few different kinds of birds and plants while we were out. It was really nice kayaking and like I said, you could take different routes and see different things. The other nice thing is you can paddle back and don’t have to worry about having a vehicle at the other end.
Once we got back to camp we had dinner and Hubs kicked my butt in a game of war. Then we crashed. It didn’t take long to fall asleep after all the paddling.
Even with Sweet Child Of Mine blaring from the other campsite.
