Rafting !!!!

The Nantahala River Gorge is one of the premier places to white water raft near us ..... not the biggest white water around ..... but plenty big for us. 



Some friends from the campground here joined the three of us to book a half day trip down the Nantahala River day before yesterday.  We spent over 2 1/2 hours going 8 miles downriver, with a few class 2 rapids, and one good class 3 ...... which got us good and wet. 

The Gorge is about 2 hours northwest of us; we have to go over the mountains or around .... so on the return we came back on the Blue Ridge Parkway .... an absolutely marvelous place with absolutely marvelous views of the blue ridges.

Later, Marilyn

elephant herd ?

Small wisps of fog (clouds) can very often be seen rising from a mountainside; and sometimes there is a lot of it, which settles in the valleys and leaves the blue ridges peeking out above.

We have joked many times that "the elephant herd over on that mountainside is putting off a lot of body heat" ...... or, perhaps "it is a whole tribe of Indians camped over there".
Well, I read about the phenomenon: ..... because of the excessive rainfall in these mountains, this is officially considered a 'temperate rainforest'.  So the fog we see rising is literally visible condensate.

I liked the elephant hypothesis best.


And here is our fishing lake at dusk:

wow

Later, Marilyn