Monday morning we had a fast moving powerful storm blow through with lightning and thunder. It had moved eastward by 8:50 AM, and that is noteworthy because our call time for our boat tour on Caddo Lake was 9:00 AM. It couldn’t have been more perfect after days of temperatures in the triple digits, the storm brought the temps down to the point that I actually got a shiver, and being on the lake right after was just gorgeous. The egrets were out in hidden bayous nipping little fish out of the water, great blue herons were swooping up after eating their fill, hungry birds were everywhere it seemed.
We were educated on the non-native, invasive plants that try to take over the lake and how they try to battle it back every year until the cold comes in winter, which then kills them off. But every year, they come back. It was just beautiful.
After the boat tour, we drove to the Caddo Lake State Park and strolled out on the piers and looked at the water lilies and the pretty yellow spatterdock (water flowers).
Then, the Husband forced us to have some “do nothing” time. I don’t have “do nothing” time. If we’re on vacation in a cool place, we MUST be doing SOMETHING. So, in defiance, I started researching who the area artist is that repurposes VW bugs into art and went down a rabbit hole of history about the area. Pictures and story in my next post. So fascinating!
Anyway, we went back to Jefferson for dinner (we made it into McGarety’s Pub without a reservation – YES! FIST PUMP!) and then had a post-dinner walk through the forest.
Jammie J's Quest 