Back to the Missouri and a Little Rest

First, I want to mention our friends in Southwest Florida. It’s difficult to write of our peaceful good times knowing there are thousands with a category four hurricane bearing down on them. I only hope Ian does a minimum of harm. Stay safe, everyone. The only people who die in hurricanes are those who don’t get out. So if there’s an evacuation order for you, please go!

We are just south of Council Bluffs, Iowa, along the Missouri again, in Lake Manawa State Park. We are now below the dams on the river, but there still seems to be no commercial navigation here. We saw what might have been a barge loading apparatus, but it looked old and disused. It is a lovely river, still.

Lake Manawa lies just east of the river and was formed by a river flood in 1881. It’s a big enough lake to allow motor boating and water skiing and wake boarding. We even saw a sailboat with a small cabin on it yesterday.

The park around it is lovely and seems to be a popular place with people from Council Bluffs and Omaha, which is right across the river.

The campground is new, and although it is just a large, grassy field, the campsites are well spaced and the roads and sites are all cement and level.

And it has full hook-ups, so we are staying here a week.

There are miles of bike and walking paths.

Despite the background noise of an urban area, which we haven’t heard since Missoula, there is wildlife. We’ve seen turkeys and deer and a lot of fat, dark brown squirrels. Not a bad place to hang out for a week.