DHL Lenear Creek

A little warmer last night at 39 degrees. Today only made it up to 46, and was cloudy. Mike pulled out at 6:40a, and his Garmin Inreach shows that he’ll probably be home in Milwaukee before 10p. We saw that he was back at the boat ramp around 10am. Bill and I pulled anchors at 8am and dropped them just before 3pm in Lanear Creek. Saw maybe eight fishing boats today. This is supposed to be a good lake for fishing, but I haven’t seen any of the fisherman real in fish.  We are just a few miles south of the State Park where we launched, however, we still have the lake east of there to explore. Still seeing icicles around the lake in shaded spots. Saw a couple of warning or navigation buoys beached in a few coves. We see a lot of timber in the end of the coves, and even along the main shoreline. That’s been around most of the lake. Glad the logs are not out floating in the channels! Looks like Sunset Marina is going through with a large expansion. On the other side of the channel from the marina we saw a whole lot of new slips on some very long docks. Doing a little googling, it appears that these are all part of Sunset's expansion. And from a few remarks I found, I don't think a lot of folks are happy with it. The expansion takes up a good part of the cove. We are thinking now we will have circumvented Dale Hollow Lake by the end of this weekend. In which case, I’ll get home a few days earlier than planned. This evening Bill and I are bow anchored, and then stern rafted. We do this to socialize and also keeps the boats in line without using a stern anchor or tying to shore. We both also have the Webasto heaters, which sound like a small jet engine when they are running. In this configuration, both our exhaust ports are far from the V-Berths, so don’t hear each other’s heaters running. :-)Read more