Hubby and I rode to Guntersville but before we started our trip we stopped to purchase our lottery tickets for the week and to get our weekly B12 Shots. We stopped at Foodland and purchased two canned drinks and again at McDonald's in Rogersville for two apple pies.
What a way to start the day!
We traveled US 72 E to I65 S to I565 E to US 431 SE to Guntersville.
We arrived in Guntersville around 11:30 AM stopping at Lake Guntersville to take pictures of 100s of Cormorants and Sea Gulls that were perched on the piers.
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Gulls |
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Cormorants |
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I chose a chicken leg and wing, fried okra, and collard greens |
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We stopped at Guntersville State Park Birding Site #34 to take a few pictures. |
Signs there said that we might see Signature Species, waterfowl, wading birds, shorebirds, and Birds of Prey sadly, we did not see a single bird at site #34.
We rode up the hill past the State Park Cabins and Lodge, and down the hill to the Campgrounds, beach, and pavilion.
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On our way down we saw a doe hiding in the brush. |
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At the State Park Lagoon, we saw two goats, 3 Emus |
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Five Donkeys |
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The beach was desolate but there were hundreds of American Coots and gulls. |
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As we were leaving the beach we saw these two does. They came right up to the car and stopped for a picture They were still there as we drove away. |
We missed our turn and rode 8 miles too far.
Turned on our GPS and it took us down several winding roads.
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Waterfall @ Bucks Pocket State Park |
We walked back to the car and hubby plugged our home address into the GPS which led us down this winding road that crossed the bridgeless South Sauty Creek. The creek water came from the waterfall we had seen earlier. Like so many backcountry roads in Tennessee, there was no bridge. There was only a poured concrete foundation where the creek flowed over the concrete. The road to the Ranger station was closed because of all the rain. Hubby said he saw tire tracks so he felt the bridge was safe to cross.
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We stopped at Weathington Park Overlook Sections, Alabama It overlooks the Tennessee River |
The sun was setting as we entered Scottsboro and a few clouds had drifted in giving us a spot of rain.
It was getting dark when we stopped on the East side of Huntsville at McDonald's for dinner.
We stopped at Dicks and Cabela's in Huntsville to look at Scopes.
We talked to a couple of employees at Dicks about scopes and camera lenses.
We watched an employee feed the fish at Cabela's.
We arrived home around 8:30PM.
I was exhausted from all the traveling, took a shower put on my PJs, climbed into bed, and was asleep in no time.
On Feb 22, three young people drove across this South Sauty Creek and their jeep was swept into the floodwaters two of the young people were rescued as of March 1, the third Koy Spears has not been found.