Day 102: More Rain - and a little sun - at Chena Lake Recreation Area

July 25, 2014

Well, it rained most of the night and continued this morning until about 8:00. Morning temperature of 53.

After the rain finally stopped it was a gray, cool, cloudy day. We were able to get a good hike in this morning and certainly didn't need sunglasses or sun screen – trying to stay positive about this weather. We went over to the lake and hiked on the bike trails. There were lots of ducks with baby ducklings out this morning. The lighting was really bad so no good pictures of the ducklings.

Later in the day we had to run into town to pick up a few things like windshield washer fluid. Went through two little showers while we were out running the errands. Yep, we have had so much rain/mud/dirt on the windshields that both vehicles needed a refill. Took the whole gallon we bought, so still don't have any extra to carry. Hopefully as we head back south we will have better – read "dryer" – weather. Fewer construction zones and dirt roads would be nice too.

After we got back home we were watching an afternoon movie and shock – the sun was all of a sudden shining thru the windows. We stopped the movie and headed out. Can't waste any sunshine! We got the bikes out and had a really nice afternoon ride. We rode over to the flood control dam and levy. We saw the high water mark for the last flooding in the area in 1992. Wow. Glad we weren't here then and understand why they need all this flood control. We weren't the only ones that quickly took advantage of the weather change. When we got to the lake there were already people out in kayaks paddling around. They rent kayaks, canoes and paddle boats here.

 

 

 

If the weather is nice tomorrow we might get our boat out. We really hope to do some more hiking and biking, however currently at 9:30 pm it is raining again. It appears to just be a little shower – we hope.