Hike around part of Table Rock Lake, Branson, MO

Saturday, May 28, 2016

WOW! It is not raining today.  First day in 5 days.  We plan to take a hike then get to the museum at Top of the Rock we missed on Monday due to rain.

We started our 3.2 mile hike at the Showboat Branson Belle parking lot.  There is a paved trail that goes to the Table Rock State Park Marina.

Both the picture above and below show some pretty flower beds on the path down to the Showboat Branson Belle.

Then we came across a "duck" crossing.  There should have been a sign "Duck Crossing".  Below see the "duck" coming right for us?

It is about to get us!
Hee Hee










As we walked farther down the trail, we saw one of these starting to cross the lake.

Sure looks unstable to us.  Neither of us has any desire to ever ride in one of those.

Most of the trail looked like this.  It was a very pleasant walk with just a little up hill and down hill.  There was shade on most of it, which was nice since it got up to 88 degrees and probably 70% humidity.

We made it to the main entrance to the marina.

This flower bed and the one below are on the way to the entrance to the main part of the marina.

One could rent these little boats.  However they are glorified peddle boats.  We did not want to work that hard.  It was 1.6 miles to the marina and 1.6 miles back. 

We saw several kinds of birds on our walk. There was a flock of Canadian geese in the grassy area. 

We saw this pretty little bird.  His whole back was the same blue as his head.  We probably should invest in a bird book since we seem to enjoying seeing them so much.

We saw cardinals flying around.  Tic managed to catch this female, but the male eluded us.

When we were over half way back, we saw the Showboat Branson Belle leaving for its dinner cruise.  I look forward to our cruise.  Hopefully we can cruise when it is not raining.

Next we are headed to the museum at the Top of the Rock.  That will be a separate post.