Texas Gypsies: Lake Shetek State Park near Currie, MN

Friday & Saturday, Sept 9 & 10, 2016

It has been raining hard since about 4am this Friday morning. About 9am it finally slowed. Per the weather report, there is supposed to be a break for maybe an hour before it starts raining hard again. We decided we better get on the move and get out of the site we are in or we might get stuck in the mud. (See the previous post of our site at Myre-Big Island State Park.)

Check out time at our new location of Lake Shetek State Park is not until 3pm so we decided to get out of our muddy site and go to a rest stop about 30 miles down the road. We will wait for the rain to stop at the rest stop. We arrived at Lake Shetek about 1:30pm to mostly sunny skies.

We have a wonderful parking site at the end of a row. Therefore we have a large side yard. We have full-hookup and 50amp. We really like this state park.

Low tonight is in the mid 50's and is in the upper 60's now at 6pm. Dusty is excited to have a fire tonight.

While Dusty was enjoying the fire, Tic walked over to the lake to get some sunset pictures.

This is a fairly large lake. Love the clouds.

Back at our campsite, the clouds are turning pink. Love all the color.

Got the fires going good now. Sm-mores are not on the diet so none tonight, but it is a good fire for that.

As the sun sets further, the clouds get more color. Beautiful!

We have a waxing gibbous half moon tonight. We are so blessed!

Saturday we walked around part of the lake and out to Loon Island.

This is part of the roped off swimming area. Beautiful clear day, but too cool to be swimming.

This fancy staircase leads down to the swimming area from the restrooms.

We are walking through the park towards the boat ramp area. The grounds here are immaculately kept.

Oh look a little fishing dock we did not know was here. There are benches on each side.

There is a lot of history here. Apparently the settlers and native Indians clashed here. This is one of the settler's house.

Interesting chair inside the house.

If you blow this picture up, you can read a little about the settlers.

We will be walking across this causeway to get to Loon Island. We enter the island through a tunnel of trees at the other end of the causeway.

We saw several kinds of birds. This one is a downy woodpecker. We also saw lots of black-capped chickadees and the white-breasted nuthatchers but they flittered around too much to ever get a picture.