September 8, 2009
Departing under the threat of rain after a drippy early morning, we enjoyed a day outdoors with temps in the 70s and clouds gradually dissipating.
What a great hike we had in Limberlost Swamp and Loblolly Marsh, beautiful but insectful. I’m wondering what it is about marsh equals mosquitoes that I don’t understand. At any rate, the little whiner/biters were a problem only for a part of our time out there.
It’s a fascinating area, diverse with prairie, woods and swamps. We lingered long at a good-sized pond rich with bird life and turtles, lots of leopard frogs
Everywhere we went today we heard many bird calls that were unknown to us.
Acres and acres of goldenrod
At every turn, we saw critters and creatures and flowers of all kinds and puffballs
It’s hard to imagine the Wabash at that point being navigable. When I see it now, I wonder about the ability to get even our kayaks any distance along it. We are told it was named for the Indian words meaning pure white water, but it is now a sluggish green slimy waterway. I can’t think this is the result of low water only because it has obviously flooded very recently, but still scarcely moves, and bears zero resemblance to its ages-ago characteristic of clear water flowing over white limestone.
Nevertheless, I’d love to fish the Wabash waters. When we hiked out into what’s called the Rainbow Bottoms,
I really wanted to continue along the river;
My puniness prevented us from doing all we wanted, but under any circumstances, we could not have done all we would like to here. Our journeying today took us to a place called Amishville, which includes an RV park that might be good to use for the next trip, which would put us in closer proximity to the Wabash and Limberlost.
Supper tonight was cornbread-stuffed tomatoes (the vegetables fresh from Jeff & Deb’s garden), a recipe I found in an annual "Southern Living" cook book, a gift from Melissa. It was delicious, made more so undoubtedly by the estimated four miles we hiked today.
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