Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma

October 28, 2008
(Can you find the pretty flowers Will bought a Kathy.)We spent the morning sitting in the Waldorf parking lot letting the sun warm us up. We walked around the Wal-Mart and found something we didn’t need to go with something we thought we might need. We drove through Checotah and out business 69 to Fountain Head State Park, today called: Lake Eufaula State Park. It is wrapped around the largest man-made lake in Oklahoma. We stopped at the visitor center and we spent the day a premier campsite 85; you have to pay extra because it has a great view. We love our I-phone! As the sun was starting down we headed down route 9 and found a corps of engineer recreation area. We pulled in and drove down to the lake. We saw a flock of snow geese and decided to spend the night; no one else was about the campground. We paid our $3.50 and found a spot that would get the morning sun. Will built us a grand fire and we drank hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows. We watched the sun set and the stars pop out. It was a crisp night and the stars were bright. Frogs started to greet the darkness. The caretaker stopped down to say hello, told us about getting firewood, about the critters around including a mountain lion that stops by from time to time (“He don’t hurt nobody, just walks around a bit then moves back into the timbers.”) and about the constant noise we were hearing that we thought was a bulldozer. It was a natural gas pump and would continue make noise 24/7. That was the bad part. The camp is beautiful and with so many shore birds it was a good stop.