Flowers at Lake Cumberland Kentucky

Here are some pictures taken at Lake Cumberland, Kentucky last weekend. The weather was great and a lot of people were out on the lake to celebrate the end of the summer boating season.

The next set of pictures were wild flowers growing along the shore of the lake.

Panoramic View of Lake Cumberland

Using the PhotoMerge feature on Photoshop I made this panoramic view from the boat of Lake Cumberland. Pretty neat.

Lake Cumberland, Kentucky

Over the weekend, I got to go camping at Lake Cumberland, Kentucky and study the geology of the lake. The dam is being repaired so the banks of the lake are revealed which also shows all the exposed rock. This area has a lot of exposed Mississippian period fossils which consists mostly of the animal called a crinoid.

Tent Camping at Lake Cumberland, Kentucky

Since we were out boating from morning to evening, my cousin and I decided to tent camp at Cumberland Lake, Kentucky to allow an early start in the morning.

We stayed at the campground at Grinder Hill Dock (http://www.griderhilldock.com/camping.html) and I will say it is a steep hill going to the lake. The campground was nice and it has 10 tent sites with us and one other group being the only tent campers that night. The campsite had a slight view of the lake through the trees and you could hear the boats out on the lake. Most of the campers were in trailers at the campground.

The temperature was in the 90s during the day and at night around 9 AM it still was in the 80s. It took a while to go to sleep but by morning the temperature was in the 60s F. It was very dry there and it did not appear to have rained in a while so we did not start a camp fire.


It would be nice to camp when it is cooler but a very pleasant place to stay.

Visit to Lake Cumberland, Kentucky

Last weekend I went on a geology field trip with KYANA Geological Society (http://www.kyanageo.org/) to Grider Hill Dock (http://www.griderhilldock.com/) at Cumberland Lake, Kentucky.

The lake was nice and not too crowded. As you can see in the picture the rock banks are very visible in the pictures as the Army Corp of Engineers had to lower the water levels to repair the dam that created this lake from the Cumberland River.

Since the water level is down it makes a great time to observe the geological features covered by the water. This area was part of a vast shallow sea during the Mississippian period (known as Carboniferous outside the United States) which was about 320-360 million years ago. Animals that looked like plants ("sea lilies") known as crinoids flourished here.

These pictures showed the marina and our group of 17 rented two pontoon boats for the day.