vacation time

[mjeff87]

The wife and I just spent a week at Smith Mountain Lake out here in the western part of VA.  We rented (a VERY affordable) cottage with another couple from PA and spent the week relaxing, drinking, eating, pontoon-ing, and generally being very lazy.  It was absolutely gorgeous and we'll be going back many, many more times (it's only 3 hours from our home), especially in the fall when the leaves all change.  SML is a man-made lake, damned for hydro-electric power.  It has 525 miles of shoreline......and we explored about 250 of them via pontoon  Here's a couple pics.

 

 

[Pete M]

what a lovely view!  

 

on a side note, I'm not sure if Georgia has a single natural lake.    

[Manche757]

Very pretty for sure but Pete it is not a natural lake.  Relatively recently created, 1963, to generate electricity.  Not to be confused with Mountain Lake, also in Virginia, which was the setting for the film Dirty Dancing

[HOrnbrod]

^^  Pretty sure Pete didn't miss the dam pic.  

 

I fished there a few times in the 80's when we lived in VA. We used to call it the Dead Sea as we nearly always got skunked bass fishing.  Maybe it's better now...