Bays Mountain Park is located in Kingsport, Tennessee, about 1/2 hour from our house. The earthen dam created a mountaintop lake that used to supply water to the city of Kingsport. It's no longer used for this purpose, as our guide told us that the water would run out in a week, because of Kingsport's growth over the years. We took a ride on the lake on a barge (really just a big pontoon boat - heck I wanted to run it!) and saw some beautiful sights.
Ranger Bob was a hoot (though Cait seems unimpressed) and full of information. Why, he might have let me drive the boat if I'd have asked nicely. Though he didn't seem too happy when one of the Terrible Two-Year-Old Twins tried it. I couldn't snap a picture of them. They didn't stand still long enough.
Lexi poses on the barge.
You're going to see a lot of pictures with rain! Honestly, it didn't seem to rain that much while the Craleys were here, but it seems everywhere we went, I have rain pictures. It started raining at Bays Mountain while we were on the barge and we got soaked running for the nature center, where Mike bought us ponchos. The Wolf program had to be held indoors, but luckily there was a break in the clouds long enough for Ranger Bob to howl at the wolves.
They howled back.
I couldn't get any snaps of the wolves. They were double fenced, and my camera would only focus on the fences. Drat. But Caiti got some great video footage, and I did talk one park resident into posing for me.
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Wow, Aunt Cindy - you've posted more than I ever have! :)
You probably know this trick already, but to get a shot through a fence, focus on something about the same distance as the object you want, like maybe the trees above the wolves or just turn and focus on something down the fenceline a bit. Then hold the button down to focus and move the frame to the [wolves]. The camera won't even know the fence is there!
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