We arrived in Atwood Thursday evening just in time to watch Thursday night football (it is football season after all) Jeff and I watched the football game and made it a early night to get some needed sleep.
Saturday, it was set up time for the campsite.
building the famous TIKI Bar, the lighted flagpole, the cooking area, and the flat screen tv for the sports bar element.
Friday was the start of the cooking, starting with the beef brisket, it must of weighted 10 pounds.
I started it at 3pm and stayed with it all night finally giving in to go to sleep at 4 am.
Saturday, the big day..
Cooking, the pork butt, ribs,and beans.
During the cooking time they have horse drawn hayrack rides
During the afternoon the have music playing I liked this beer song
Also during the afternoon the locals show off their hot and customized golf carts, this one is a 1964 with a 2 cylinder engine and three speed transmission.
Out turn in times started at 4:45pm to 5:30pm
here are pictures of the food
This is the pork ribs
This is the Brisket sample
I forgot to take a picture of the brisket, this year it got cooked a little too long, not as good as I like..
After turning in the food for judging, at 6pm the rest of the food is taken to the hall for the public to consume
A video of the folks in line to eat some good BBQ, it is quite a line. The organizers to us they sold 800 food tickets, pretty impressive for a small town in northern Kansas
After supper it is time for the TIKI sports bar to happen
It's a funny thing with the TIKI Bar, some want to take picture with it.
Here are the Husker fans watch the Huskers finally win 30 - 27
This year they made a new category BEST CAMPSITE, I guess all the Nebraska fans voted :)
It ended up a late night, a live band from Colorado Springs played 'till 11 pm,
We left Friday around 11am, Rusty, Mark and I, destine for Stagecoach Resivour, near Steamboat Springs for a little fishing, both of us were pulling triples, (truck + camper + boat) for a weekend .
A few fish were caught on Friday night,
But,
Saturday night we were hot, I think 5 nice size northern, and couple nice rainbo trout.
The sunset on Saturday night was awesome,
I think in am a sucker for sunset pictures.
The fall colors are getting a good start.
A very colorful weekend
after everyone left to go home..
I took the Sea Nymph out on
Sunday evening, tried some solo fishing.
This is the carch from 5pm to 7pm that evening
The cutting board is 20 inches long, so the Northerns were 24 inches long and the Rainbow was 16 inches
A weak cold front was coming through on Monday morning, so the Sea Nymph was packed up, returned to the big city matrix on Monday..
After leaving the Goats, a trip to Southwest Colorado
Last winter on the way to the snowbird trip to Arizona, we stalled a solar aeration system for a pond near the New Mexico Border.
This past week I checked on the unit and found it in excellent shape, working as hoped.
The customer, uses the aeration system to keep alive trophy trout in his private lake, preventing winter kills and low oxygen levels during the summer months..
For the techies out there, the solar panels provide a maximum 270 watts, 2 deep cycle group 29, 12 volt batteries, a 15 amp charge controller, 12 volt timer, our Pondmaster AP100 linear aeration system.
Everyone caught fish It was a great day Then it is time for the GOATS
The goat wadi would not be complete without Fred Believe it or not his beard is only one year old, last year he was clean shaven.. Pretty impressive
Tim, Fred, & Rocky discussing Rocky's adventures of the last year of travels. :)
A big hit this year was the cast metal chimnea I picked up from craig's list
The Tiki Bar in full dress.. Also Rocky, with a couple of new additions to his family.. A good time was had by all ...
During the Goats gathering, we have a fishing contest at a private lake
Walmart in Salida.....
This fellow was not happy about being left in the truck while is buddy went shopping
Many Walmarts in the country, will not allow RVers park overnight due to pressure from those who like to control other folks lives according to their standards. Well ....... in Salida, they not only allow you stay overnight, they also will let you sell you RV too :)
My kind of place !!!!!!!!!!!!! Broncos vs the Steelers .... Sunday Night
After almost everyone had left the goat event. The Television was set up for a little sports bar action with the remaining Old West herd, they still had their CHEF on staff .. pretty cool and very good food, in the middle of a meadow on top of a mountain.
At the beginning of the week, my brother and I took a little trip south of Eagle Colorado to Sylvan Lake.
The lake is about only 40 acres But set in a beautiful part of the Rockies,
This is the type of boating and fishing I have been striving to get the Sea Nymph ready for.
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Although the say the have a boat ramp it is nothing more than a shallow beach.
The water is crystal clear, there was little wind, great weather for fishing
Some landscape pictures
Early morning a little steam rising form the water
The resident wildlife... ducks, blue heron, eagles, hawks.
To expand our places to check out for more fishing we traveled to Harvey Gap Reservoir
The Reservoir is about 160 acres when full, due to the drought, the water level has been drawn by about 30 ft so far, there is still about 30 ft of water left in the lake, it has large Northern Pike, Perch, Trout, and catfish, no Walleye..
We caught a small Northern, the bigger Northern Pike snapped the lines with no effort ... we will be better prepared next time.
This lake has very little weed vegetation which make it easier to fish we will be back,
Harvey Gap is also a state park..
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