WEDNESDAY, 26 AUGUST 2020 KLAMATH FALLS, OR

 Wednesday, 26 August

New day new dawn so they say.  I took Bella out to go potty and was greeted with a pretty amazing site.

A double sun as it was reflected on the water.  It was much more amazing in person.  The photo just doesn’t do it justice.  However, as we walked a little I was rewarded with this sight!

And while sitting there enjoying it and letting Bella do her thing, I was able to capture an even better shot.

I fixed cinnamon rolls and Rob grilled bacon for breakfast.  It was quite yummy.

Afterwards we went for a 4 mile walk.  We headed up the paved road that turned into a gravel road.  It went through the woods and at times you could see the water.  Nothing spectacular, but Bella enjoyed it.  We have plans for paddle boarding and figured she wouldn’t want to go so thought a nice walk would be in order.

We came back and Rob took the boards down to the grass by the water.  He has a plan which he executed perfectly.  A way to sit while paddling, or standing if preferred.  He strapped our little low-profile beach chairs onto the boards.  Mine right in the middle and his back from center.  For his he could either stand and be in the center or sit.

We wanted to do the Rocky Point Canoe Trail, or at least part of it.

So we set off from Rocky Point Resort (which is where we are staying) It is the red dot where it says “begin here”.  We were all set with our chairs and water, and Bella decided she wanted to go too.  She was fine the whole time.

The Midges are horrible.  They are like tiny mosquitos.  They don’t bite, they just land on us and are annoying as hell.  They were even bothering Bella.  Apparently the smoke is killing them.

Anyway, we paddled out through Pelican Bay.  We saw an Eagle sitting on a post.  As we got closer he flew away of course. But it was awesome to see it both sitting and flying.

We saw pelicans, although not as many as yesterday, sea gulls, and blue heron.  

We paddled the mile down to the opening through the marsh.

It was pretty cool in there.  There were Lilly type plants with yellow flowers on both sides of us.

There were more blue herons and other wild life as well.  We saw a couple of the “Canoe Trail” signs so we knew we were on the correct route.

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We paddled for about an hour before deciding to turn around.  We knew we wouldn’t be able to do the whole trail.  Rob took a picture of where we were on the map on his phone when we turned around.  

So we figured that we had paddled about a mile and a half before turning around.  It took us another hour and 10 minutes to get back to the dock.  It was fun.  Bella seemed better about it, probably because it was so smooth.  Still, she was happy to get back to land.

We took the boards apart and deflated them.  Then we dried them off, rolled them up and put them back in their packs.  We will be leaving tomorrow so we wont be using them anymore here.

Rob took a shower and then we went to the little restaurant here at Rocky Point.  We sat out on their deck overlooking the water.  There are still a lot of people out on the water. The are in canoes, paddle boards, row boats and fishing trawlers.  There are also a lot of people out fishing from the docks.  Earlier, while putting our boards away, we watched a young man on our dock pull in a beautiful 20” Rainbow Trout”.  While sitting on the patio we watched a man in a fishing trawler pull one in about the same size.  Happily, both of them released their fish after taking a picture with it.

I had two of the worst Bloody Mary’s Ive ever had at that restaurant.  The first tasted like just watered down tomato juice with nothing else in it.  She made me a new one which wasn’t as watered down but she must have put a lot of Worcestershire in it.  It was awful in a different way.  I couldn’t drink it either.

We had really good burgers though, grilled mushrooms and pepper jack cheese.  

It was a nice evening. Rob decided he wanted a new “profile” picture.  He likes his beard.  He says its the first time in his life he’s been “allowed” to grow one.  Im not crazy about it, but what can I say.  At least he is keeping it trimmed.

We went back to the rig and watched a movie.  It was one of the oddest movies Ive seen in a very long time.  It had Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant and Halle Berry,  so we figured it would be good.  It was called Cloud Atlas.  It was odd.

Tomorrow we continue south, down to Susanville.