Honker Bay 2.0 LBL

Well it started off a nice day… Moki and I had a nice walk this morning. We discovered a corn 🌽 field … who’d of thought corn could be so fun !… first you’ve got to pull a stalk from the plant, then you have to pull the corn from the stalk, and then finally you have to hop around like a broncing bull throwing the corn in the air and catching it… rince and repeat ! Good morning for Moki ! After that we pulled anchor and headed up the Cumberland. It was really windy overnight, choppy today and everything stirred up. I was working.. all was good… until we ran aground ! Not a hard grounding and James got us off polling. Then right before we made the turned into Honker Bay we ran aground again ! This time James had to walk the anchor out and while I pulled the anchor up he pushed the boat. The boat was on a big branch under water. We got off without too much fuss but James did have to go in… and apparently fell in… although I missed that. Finally we made it to anchor in Honker Bay…. Back in the state of Kentucky ! While James relaxed, Moki and I hiked to Empire Point. Empire Point served as the head quarters for the NWR back in the 1930s and then was an agricultural education center from the 60s thru the 80s. Today cooperative farmers maintain the area gathering hay for livestock and keeping the area free from trees that would obstruct views. Tonight we are sitting on the back deck listening to what sounds like water going down a drain… we assume it’s fish… probably Asian Carp but it’s pretty mysterious 🤷🏼‍♀️. Winds are predicted to pick up overnight and rain is in our future. 53 miles today.Read more