A thunderstorm woke me early in the morning again. It was nothing like being in the frightening thunderstorm that befell us while staying in a rustic cabin in Custer State Park, SD, which was like a strobe light in our faces and thunder so loud you're sure it would split the sky with its force. This was actually a little pleasant mellow storm, but I peed in the bucket because I didn't want to get wet outside. John was a sweetie and dumped it when he braved the outdoors to pee (dude is just macho like that :) We were too groggy to stay up much to enjoy it, though I then could not get back to sleep. When I finally did, I had the most bizarre dreams of disgusting worms that were living under my skin. I pulled two of out from under my knuckles and thought I was rid of them, but when I looked down I realized my legs were full of giant, pus filled welts that had worms crawling under them. Thankfully, John woke me up before that part of the dream went any further...fecking nasty!!! I have the most twisted dreams, I swear!
We had decided the night before that we would just get breakfast on the road so we fired up the coffee and packed up a bit. We took a short meander back down to the dock to enjoy the sunrise and absolute stillness and silence before heading back to our noisy city. We snuggled together watching the waves and the whispering trees as we sipped our coffee. A lone gull was out hunting, but no other movement on the lake but the rippling waves.
Gull
Frog jumping near the cabin as we packed up
This gorgeous green fellow was trying to hitch a ride!
Pelicans! We finally see a whole flock as we were turning in our keys!
Goodbye to Lake Shetek!
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