Stone Mountain Lake

A few weeks after we went camping, me and Raque went paddleboarding on Stone Mountain Lake. I'd been a few times with my brother and Ksenia, but I've never had to handle the logistics myself, so it was going to be a challenge.

Raque has a board, but I borrowed a board and a pump from my brother, and we met at the lake. I forget exactly how it happened, but during some previous instance of paddleboarding, the entire assembly that you connect the pump to on her board had gotten loose, and was just barely hanging on. When we tried to connect the pump to it, the inside part became detached, and it was a bit of a challenge to get it line back up and tighten everything. Fortunately, she had the weird little wrench that you need, and we got it fixed pretty quickly. Then, her pump worked, but there was nothing I could do to get mine to work. It turned out, on a subsequent trip, it wasn't the pump, but rather my car. I had a blown fuse, and every power outlet in my car was dead. We never tried my pump in her car or her pump in mine, so we didn't figure out the problem until way later.

At any rate, disasters were averted, and we had a great time paddling around the lake!

There are a few cool things to see out there, including views of the mountain itself.

There's almost always a snake hanging out at the little waterfall.

There's this covered bridge that's low to the water, and you can't go under it standing.

There's an old riverboat moored up out there too.

On a subsequent trip, we discovered that there are actually two old steamboats on the lake. Me and the girls went to Stone Mountain a bit when they were young, and we even rode the ducks, back when they were doing that, but I have no memory of the boats. I'm sure the internet knows stuff about them, and it would probably be trivial to look them up, but I've thus far, been way to lazy for that.

Paddleboarding isn't really a performance sport. Arguably, I guess it's more of an activity than a sport, even, but whatever... We had a great time!

I want to say that we got some BBQ chicken pizza at a local pizza place after. I can't remember the name of it, though, which is unfortunate, because it was really good pizza.