Today we displaced from Crystal Springs Cove to Greers Ferry Lake as we continue our slow meander through Arkansas enroute to Tennessee and Kentucky.
This COE campground is not very full at all, and for good reason. I'd say about 1/2 of the campsites are under water or the access road to them is under water! Yep, heavy rains last few weeks have raised the water level of the lake by 15 feet according to the fee both attendant!
Martha and I set up camp, then went to the swim area, which was under water, to take a dip. The water at this lake is quite choppier than Ouashita Lake!
We would return later with the Sammy for pics as we'd not carried my camera on the first outing.
3 of the four site in loop G, that I could ID, are underwater....
Standing at the entrance to site G3, shooting back towards the Sammy
The water is above my knees at this point.
Martha sitting on the picnic bench for site G4, the fire grill next to
her is under water...
Martha trying to blame the GPS for getting us here..... ;)
Near sunset, I went out on Yagi but failed to find a good spot for sunset pics, not to mention the sunset itself was quite a non-event. I did find out how zealous the State of Arkansas Department of Transportation is about clearly marking their areas of responsibility:
The Sammy was spewing white smoke on startup yesterday, I'm suspecting a hopefully tiny crack/break in the engine's head gasket. More to follow on this rather vexing theory. If it proves out, it's an expensive repair and may prove the Sammy's doom in terms of my ownership.
I've requested help from the Samurai community that is attending the rally in Kentucky the weekend of 9-10 July, perhaps someone will help nail down this issue and perhaps it'll lead to a fix. If not, it'll be an expensive lesson for me but what the heck, it's only money right? : ( I'm keeping my fingers crossed its not the head gasket, as the Sammy started up several times today, ran fine, no smoke at all.
Of course, now the electric fuel pump is making louder buzzing noises, sporadically, when the engine is at idle. She ran fine on the 25 mile test drive I did today after we noticed the new noise, so will see how things go the next few days along with monitoring for white smoke. Sigh.
4 comments:
Well, well... it's the wife's fault ;-) That's what my hubby would say as well whenever we were headed in the wrong direction...
No, I'd blame Google Maps for the road into the lake...
It's amazing the wrong turns one can get mixed up in when blindly following a GPS SonjaM! ;)
It's actually, RichardM, the 2nd road I've seen here in Arkansas that deadenda in a lake.
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