DHL Mitchell Creek

As expected, another quiet & calm night. Temperature got down to 41, but made it up to the low 70’s today, sunny and not much a breeze. Pulled anchor at 8am, and dropped it here near the end of Mitchell Creek at 3pm. Explored some interesting things, saw a turkey and found a large boat fender. Not long after leaving Indian Creek, and just across from the Cedar Hill Resort, we entered a small cove and at the end found a building with its dock on the shore. Mike and Bill decided to anchor nearby and then rowed their Kaboats over to check it out. I just drove C-Traveler over next to the building and beached it. (Beach was steep, so just put the bow against it and left the engine idling in gear.) Ended up being a floating restroom and storage shed on a large dock. Not in the best of shape. I suspect it came over from the Dale Hollow Lake Marina, as there were some other old docks and buildings in coves next to that marina. (Dale Hollow Marina was just uplake a short distance from the nicer Cedar Hill.) Passing another small open cove, I spotted what looked like a boat fender. Pulling up to the beach I could see it was a large black one. I beached C-Traveler and retrieved the fender to add to my collection. We entered Mitchell Creek, passed the Mitchell Creek Marina, and continued down the west branch, which was Carter Creek. In one of the coves I got a pretty good view of a Turkey watching us. At the end of Carter Creek, we turned around and then when we got back to the Marina, I decided to stop in to see what was in the store, actually just looking to drop off my garbage. Still too early in the season for them to have much other than beer, but I did score a Milky Way Ice Cream Bar! Left the marina and turned to continue down the east branch, which was back on Mitchell Creek. Then towards the end of Mitchell Creek, we could see a large chimney or rock tower with what looked like a camper on it. Or at least Bill thought that. With the sun hitting it, it was rather bright at the top, and did look like a rock tower. We continued past it, and went on to the end of the Mitchell arm. Mike decided to anchor there and take his Kaboat to find a stream at that end. Bill and I came back to the cove next to where we saw the chimney, as I wanted to hike up to check it out and see what it really was. Before anchoring, I beached C-Traveler, and then hiked up a short distance to a gravel road/trail. I followed it up a short distance to an intersection with another overgrown road, and then walked up it to the structure we saw. Looked to be a nice home at one time. And it was a chimney with just a chimney cap that was reflecting the sun when we went by. Once Mike came back from the far end of Mitchell Creek, he and Bill Kaboated to shore and hiked to the stream and water fall flowing into this cove.Read more