My girlfriend and I debated going camping last week, but a straight agreement could not be made about where, and also the fact that both of us are low on cash didnt help that out.
So we decided to do a "day" trip to Cades Cove (For those of you that do not know, CC is part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, about 40 minutes from Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg), something that we used to do a lot in the early part of our relationship a couple years ago. We live about 200 miles from Cades Cove, or a 3 1/2 hour drive, we usually do not do day trips any more because of the "long" distance and how tiring it can often be. (we leave at 2 or 3 to be in CC at sunrise).
This trip Brandi decided she wanted to take her dog with us as well, I did not oppose this but it did slow us down a little bit since we had to stop a few times to walk him. We left Lenoir, NC at 330 am (neither of us had been to bed yet since the previous day) and arrived in Cades Cove shortly after 730am. I misjudged when the sunrise would be and it actually rose a little after 6, in the summer the day is so long that the sun/light is already "bad" by 730 or 8 so that was a slight disappointment from the start. The day started out promising though, saw a Bear pretty quickly, but he darted into the woods at the first glance of us, no chance of getting a photo of him. Not to long after that I got some photos of the deer posted below. I was slowly making my way to get closer to him as a car drove by scaring it off a little bit, it ended up coming back and crossing the road into much much horrible light. We saw quite a few more deer and bears during the trip, though we did not have any other photo opportunities. The main reason for this is the fact that most people visiting Cades Cove are not courteous enough to use the many pull offs, parking lots, and empty space along the road, instead they sit in their car, and try to use their tiny P&S camera to get a photo of an animal 300 feet away. Giving everyone else no chance of seeing or photographing the wildlife. If you ever visit Cades Cove, be courteous and pull off the road if you want to look at or photograph something, dont stop when there is a lot of traffic behind you!
And for ***** and giggles, here are a few photos from February 22nd when we visited Cades Cove for our anniversary.
Thanks for viewing.
And for those of you that might be interested, we will be doing a showing of some of our Cades Cove prints at Taste Full Beans in Hickory, NC starting September 5th through October 17th.
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afrobigfoot
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@bamapilot 179556 wrote:Haven't we had a Cades Cove thread before??? 
Its a possibility.
Its a possibility.
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You left out the part of said people stopping in the road and using a tiny p&s to photo an animal 300 ft away and using the flash.
My favorite is those who put lawn chairs in the back of pick up trucks, carry huge binoculars, and drink beer. That is some fine southern entertainment.
My favorite is those who put lawn chairs in the back of pick up trucks, carry huge binoculars, and drink beer. That is some fine southern entertainment.
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@jbc28 179573 wrote:You left out the part of said people stopping in the road and using a tiny p&s to photo an animal 300 ft away and using the flash.
My favorite is those who put lawn chairs in the back of pick up trucks, carry huge binoculars, and drink beer. That is some fine southern entertainment.
I have always wanted to see one of those people fall out of their truck. I imagine they are the same people that wear camo to "the Mont" to ski. I do not remember what days or seasons it is but they offer hay rides sometimes at sunrise or sunset. Its a dodge or ford dually pulling a trailer with hay on it, not really my idea of a hay ride, but pretty funny to see.
We got stuck in traffic in fall of 07 in the Cove after dark, people kept stopping to take photos of deer. One in particular that I remember was probably 200 feet away and I remember the car in front of us had some one much like you described above. I think I ended up honking the horn at them. After a while I start doing that, I hope that it will either make people move on, or scare the wildlife away so that they will move on. Nothing makes my blood boil worse than those people like that.
My favorite is those who put lawn chairs in the back of pick up trucks, carry huge binoculars, and drink beer. That is some fine southern entertainment.
I have always wanted to see one of those people fall out of their truck. I imagine they are the same people that wear camo to "the Mont" to ski. I do not remember what days or seasons it is but they offer hay rides sometimes at sunrise or sunset. Its a dodge or ford dually pulling a trailer with hay on it, not really my idea of a hay ride, but pretty funny to see.
We got stuck in traffic in fall of 07 in the Cove after dark, people kept stopping to take photos of deer. One in particular that I remember was probably 200 feet away and I remember the car in front of us had some one much like you described above. I think I ended up honking the horn at them. After a while I start doing that, I hope that it will either make people move on, or scare the wildlife away so that they will move on. Nothing makes my blood boil worse than those people like that.
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@davidski 179808 wrote:That is a beautiful photo
Thank you
Thank you