Cottonland Overland Opine Thread (2 Viewers)

[WharfRat]

I need a week in that part of the country with no schedule.

 

[fjfodee]

Have been camping a few times during all this.....maybe MO state stopping people but we are not shelter in place.

Have had no issues at all. Planing on getting away this weekend and some next week.

There are no public areas open but most aren't looking for those anyway.

I think the jackasses are the ones mouthing off......and doing stupid stuff to get ran off.

Right now in Arkansas out of state recreational lodging is prohibited.

 

[slacker24-7]

It’s been really crowded in the ozarks and ouchitas lately, I guess unemployed and out of school people From surrounding states and all over are flooding the Arkansas woods , escaping their situations. This has caused our governor Who is trying to avoid a lockdown to shut down most if not all the tourism in the area . That includes about all public state and federal areas
I’ve gotten where I just stay home on weekends and do my wanderings during the week. And even then there’s way more people than normal. And then you have turkey season opening and every dispersed camp site is now a “ turkey camp”

 

[WharfRat]

I took the canoe for a spin in the lower MS Delta last weekend. Social distancing isn’t so bad.

 

[Clutchee]

Glad you had fun, I hate snakes!

 

[WharfRat]

Glad you had fun, I hate snakes!

Snakes on a log, cool. Snakes in the boat, not cool.

 

[ntsaint]

Ha. I would disagree. No snakes, regardless of their whereabouts and/or disposition, are cool. Ever.

 

[offr0adlim0]

I’m with clutchee and saint on the snakes,

 

[dnp]

Those animals seem friendly.....

 

[WharfRat]

@Godwin what is going on here?
I saw several balls of minnows(?) with a Gar under them. At first I thought the it was a bait ball on defense, but after a closer look the Gar seem to be guarding them.

 

[Godwin]

I took the canoe for a spin in the lower MS Delta last weekend. Social distancing isn’t so bad.

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Diamondback water snake. Harmless, non-venomous.
Cottonmouth, venomous but harmless if you just leave it alone and the snake prefers it that way.
Gator, you know what a gator is.

Water is obviously up from the recent rain.

 

[Godwin]

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@Godwin what is going on here?
I saw several balls of minnows(?) with a Gar under them. At first I thought the it was a bait ball on defense, but after a closer look the Gar seem to be guarding them.

Not gar but bowfin Bowfin - Wikipedia. Males guard the eggs and after hatching the young for for a few months. Bowfin is a pretty cool fish.

 

[OGBeno]

I just got back from furlough and was told today that we are going back on furlough on May 15 through the end of May.

**** it. I am hopefully going to have the engine done on the 70 and I am out of here and heading west.

 

[DirtRoads]

@dbbowen don't you have a trip report to share?

 

[dbbowen]

Haha oh yeah. We went car camping in Arkansas and I pinstriped the hell out of my 2500 Hahahaha totally worth it. My old 80 series woulda been perfect

 

[SHUSH]

Anybody got plans for Thanksgiving week? I was planning to head north to Ozarks but ...rain and cold.

I may head east to Cheaha. Anybody got tips?



Spring break I have a cabin reserved in Desoto state park...plan to explore, horse back ride, see some civil war stuff, fly fish and spend a few days in Nooga.

 

[wngrog]

Basically Cheeha is one big long road along the Cheeha Trail on the ridge. Very cool place to visit. South of the state park is where the big overlooks are on the edge looking west

GaiaGPS - 600-1 to High Falls

www.gaiagps.com

 

[wngrog]

North of I-20 is nice too. We camped at the Pine Creek campground. Remote. Quiet.

 

[pmccraney]

if you go to cheaha, you can climb up the state park overlook tower; but, be careful because it’s sort of like a seedy truck stop for vagrant overlanders up there; case in point

@Fireman
@Onur

 

[SHUSH]

Excellent. Thanks