Paddling The Caney Fork River!! – Tuesday, July 29, 2014

 

A - Myrtle Beach State Park, Myrtle Beach, SC - June 18-25
B - Zooland Family Campground, Asheboro, NC - June 25-26
C - Stony Fork Campground, Wytheville, VA - June 26-July 2
D - Natural Bridge State Park, Slade, KY - July 2-13
E - Kentucky Horse Park Campground, Lexington, KY - July 13-17
F - Canal COE Campground, Grand Rivers, Ky - July 17-24
G - Texas T Campground, Cornersville, TN - July 24-28
H - Floating Mill COE Campground, Silver Point, TN - July 28-Aug 1

 

Tuesday, July 29, 2014 – Paddling The Caney Fork River!! 

 

We appreciate all the nice comments from yesterday’s post about how we picked such a wonderful campground and site.  However, we didn’t really pick it.  We came here because David and Sharon, a couple we met at the Spring RV-Dreams Rally, were going to be camping here.  They had already reserved site 92, our first choice, so we were left with site 71 because it was the only other one we could fit in.  So see what great things come from making new friends at an RV-Dreams Rally. 

 

 

For those that weren’t at the 2014 Spring RV-Dreams Rally,

 

David and Sharon are an amazing young couple

 

who are preparing to sell their life’s mission, Butterfly Hollow,

 

to start living the full-time lifestyle:o)) 

 

 

They built Butterfly Hollow from the ground up into a B & B and Wedding venue. 

 

Click on this link to see the beautiful place they created: http://butterflyhollowfarm.com/farmhouse.html 

 

If you know anyone who would like to buy this beautiful place,

please share this link with them:

  http://tennesseebedandbreakfastforsale.com/

 

 

It is so great to have personal tour guides who know the area and know where to paddle.

 

Our campground is the green dot on the map and our paddle is the red line.

 

 

The plan was to put in at the Buffalo Valley boat ramp

and

take out at the Happy Hollow boat ramp.

 

 

Our paddle would be about 5.25 miles.

 

 

About 10am, we drove down to David and Sharon’s site.

 

 

We followed them in the Tahoe through some beautiful Tennessee back roads

 

to the take out point and they parked their truck.

 

 

Then the four of us drove to the put in at the Buffalo Valley boat ramp.

 

It is located right in front of the dam that blocks the Caney Fork River to create Center Hill Lake.

 

 

Today, the dam was generating which means not much paddling was required, just steering;o))

 

What a beautiful ride on a beautiful river!!!

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As we paddled, we were surrounded by the Tennessee Hills:0))

 

 

Hey David, another one of those hills with a hole in it ;o)))

 

 

David and Sharon just recently got their Sea Eagle, but they sure are in sync!!!

 

 

We passed beautiful rocky cliffs and even an artist painting from a rock in the river!! 

 

 

We found a nice area to pull over, stretch our legs and eat our lunch.

 

 

Then it was just a relaxing float down the river on a spectacular day:o))

 

 

There was a bit of congestion and a few rather rude boaters at the take out.

 

They were just chatting and messing around while we waited;o((

 

 

However, if we hadn’t had to wait,

 

we would have missed this at the top of the ramp!!!

 

 

Perfect ending to a wonderful paddle down The Caney Fork!!