I’m heading to the lake Friday evening. 
I’ll be up at 5AM Sat. bass fishing until it gets too hot. I’ll probably get back in the cabin by 9AM. Short Nap. Then water-skiing that afternoon.
Fire up the grill that evening and have a cold beer.
Repeat Sun & Monday. Hopefully by Monday we’ll have caught enough fish for a fish-fry.
Drive home Tues.
Anyone else spending the 4th of July weekend on the water?
heading up to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore for about a week of backpacking and then a few days lazing around the shore drinking beer.
Should be fun!
I will be in New York during the 4th so no lake for me. But it’s OK because I fish pretty much every other day of the week during the summer, so there wouldn’t be much special about it anyway.
Yep. Solo paddling on mostly flat water in local rivers until I’m full up on sunshine, flashing scales, birdsong, and ranking up from my 3rd degree blackbelt in rockskipping. Add in a few incredibly lazy backstrokes in sluggish currents and a celebratory beer and my holiday will be complete.
I’m spending the holiday by the beach.
Of course, I live by the beach…
Yep - me, my brood, and about, oh… 30 of my SOs closest relations. Given the one bathroom in the river house we sucked it up and, darn it all, we will just stay the night in a hotel. No no, it’s ok. You go back to your window A/C. We’ll console ourselves somehow…
On the lake where I live we will see lots of out of towners and general public using the launch.
It will be busy on the water, with all kinds of watercraft and it’s all good. EXCEPT the only boats I hate with a buring passion are those 26plus ft cabin cruisers who have no business on a small lake and scum who wakeboard causing a huge destructive wake that turns into tsunami after tsumani to roll over my dock, slam into shore and erode the beach. Also making it impossible for operators of small craft to enjoy the waters without getting knocked out of your boat by a 5ft chop.
I should leave and find a small quiet spot on a riverbend somewhere…
I like Munising, it’s like stepping back into 1950 for a few days.
I’m going to Grand Coulee Dam and Lake Roosevelt. Get to watch the laser show on the dam then fireworks above it. After that it’s 2 days at Lake Chelan then 2 days at the Wenatchee River in Leavenworth. The most important part to me is the 8 days I will not be at work.
I live on DC’s Southwest Waterfront, so I’m always by the river. Well, the Washington Channel. But yah, I figure I’ll be spending some quality time at a waterside bar, or just reading at the park.
Bring your bug spray. Bug season has gone late this year, and they’re ferocious.
I’ve always loved being at the lake. Our cabin was inherited from my grandparents. It’s on a quiet creek/backwater. Great fishing. The creek runs into the main lake. It takes about 20 minutes to get out there.
The main lake will be busy this weekend. Especially those darn jet skis. They create a big traffic hazard.
I’m doing the opposite. I’m heading away from water. But I’m going to a place that has an indoor pool and a hot tub.
Maybe on Monday I’ll go to the beach, though.
Headed here on Monday. I’ll make up my mind then whether to come back or not…
Dang! I bet that gets pretty hard to take.
I wouldn’t if I were you.
I always say that Martha’s Vineyard is my home. I live there, I just work off-island 51 weeks out of the year to pay for it! Every year I’m tempted to just stay there and live on the beach. A month from today I’ll have to make that hard choice again.
Yeah, and when I go out into the bay and look back, I have to look at this. (Snapped on the 4th of July holiday a few years ago.)
EDIT: It does get a mite brisk around here. (Snapped on a January morning.)
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Alas, not this weekend. But the first Monday in August is a stat here, so I’ll be going up to the lake then. Oh Whiskeyslough, I’ve missed you!
Leaving tomorrow for Lake Cumberland in Southwest Kentucky, a manmade lake that my great-grandfather helped create when he worked for the TVA that created Wolf Dam. He and great-grandma built a cinder-block, 2 bdrm, 2 bath cabin that sits on an acre at the end of a road. At times, we squeeze 17 people into about 800 square feet. The living room is wall to wall cousins.
During the day we’ll all go out on the pontoon and swim, float, read, eat, nap, drink some brewskies, fish, jet-ski and bullshit. After returning home for a crockpot meal (don’t forget to plug it in!), we shower, collapse into our bed or a couch or an air mattress and get the best sleep of the year. Something about sleeping in the heat with just a fan blowing country air on you…
My kids grew up surrounded by family because of the lake. Wouldn’t trade it for anything.
Auntie (me) is debuting the new fancy blow-up kiddie pool I bought for all the kids I know (I am that age where everyone I know has kids) on the 4th.
Otherwise, I’m inland.
