Island Hopping and LBL run

This time last year, I had the feeling of that I had not accomplished what I really wanted and that was getting my kayak out more often.  Posted on the RVG and GOWT Facebook pages of my intentions to hunting the two island hopping caches in the north LBL.  I did change the date of the cachepedition due to there was an event in Paducah that could conflict the each other.  On the day of the cache run several cachers from Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois arrived at the landing.  We placed the kayaks into the water and off we were.  Our first stop was Lake Barkley Island Hopper , it was not far from the landing and the paddle took only a few minutes.  After some searching the cache was found and we resumed the paddle to Lake Barkley Island Hopper II.  Again, another short paddle, finding a place to beach the kayaks would be the challenge.  We all set off together to find the cache and was found quickly, however GEO.JOE was upset that he didn't find the cache.  This was something we should have agreed upon before we departed the mainland.  Oh well, lesson learned for next adventure.  We went back to the landing and loaded up the kayaks onto our vehicles.  The paddle was not difficult at all but the heat reflecting off the gravel and torture and I kept sucking water from my camel back during the loading process.  After the load up, we all got together and discussed what to do next.  Some continued to paddle, others continued to cache.  Thankfully, this paddle there were no turn overs or incidents.  Just after our paddle the lake became busy with pleasure craft, jet skies and fishing boats, which could have made our paddle very difficult.

I spent the day the rest of day grabbing some caches around the north LBL.  Some of the cool caches I found are as follows:

Often Overlooked, a cache on a bike trail that run across the Kentucky Dam, awesome views from this cache location.

KY BLACK BOX, a trail system that I didn't know about and hope more caches are placed at some time and I will return.

Ole' Fishing Pond Series -Pond #34, despite the high heat of the day, refreshed with Gatorade, I went after this cache being a 4-terrain.