Tuesday 8/13
Today's plans were changed to be a free day |
 | Donald & Carlanne took a group for a short cruise while others stayed local |  |
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 | A cruise over to the Blue Ridge Parkway and over to Maggie's Valley |  |  |
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 | A lunch stop |  |
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 | Some grabbing a few Cruiser Points |  |
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Some stayed around local to Fontana and enjoyed the resort and lake |
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 | a short drive outside of the resort (neat curvy roads) take you out to Fontana Lake |  |
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| beautiful sky today |  |  | interesting Vette photo |
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 | The lake is used for power along with a water supply |  |
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 | The lake has crystal clear water and rumored to have some great trout fishing |  |
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 | Fontana Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River. At 480 feet high, it is the tallest dam in the Eastern US, and at the time of its construction (early 1940s), it was the fourth tallest dam in the world. |  |
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 | a few other pictures around locally |  |  |
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| | two couples ran into each other at the local grill ...decided to enjoy a late lunch snack |  | |
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Back at Fontana |
 |  | Time for dinner - we barely made it over to the restaurant before the afternoon shower hit |  |
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 | after dinner we gathered out by the Gill's room where we visited and relaxed for the evening |  |  |
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 | after dark, some previews of the trip so far were on the laptop and Marsha shared some trip video |  |  |
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 | some also enjoyed trying their photography skils to grab photos of the moon and clouds |  |
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NEXT CURVE |
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