Lake Oahe

Cathy and I spent Friday night camped along one of the points at Okobojo Point and the wind blew and the whitecaps were bad out on Lake Oahe. Fortunately, on Saturday afternoon the wind went down and Pat came out so we could paddle out on the bigger water. The water levels of Lake Oahe have been down, but have comeback up to "normal" this fall. That submerged a lot of small trees that used to be out of the water. Starting from the point just outside the motor home we headed straight west out across the opening where Okobojo Creek empties into Lake Oahe. This is about a 3/4 mile crossing at that point. From there we continued across 2 more openings and finally stopped at a point about 3 miles away and just past Dry Creek. There, we got out of our boats and I went and placed a geocache for others to find. We kept an eye on the weather and it looked like it cold turn bad, even getting sprinkled on a few times. So, we hustled back and finsihed by covering about 5.8 miles. Not long after we got back and Pat headed back to Pierre the front came through and the wind blew and the rain came down hard. Timing is EVERYTHING.

With this, I am now up to 26 straight months of paddling and can add Lake Oahe and Sully County onto my list of paddling destinations.

Getting ready to launch.

Heading out across Okobojo Creek.

Turn around point.

Storm approaching from the west.