Trip 4 - Tuttle Creek Cove Kansas

Camping this past weekend consisted of a BOYS GOLF TRIP. James, Matt and I packed up the TT and went down to Manhattan Kansas and stayed at Tuttle Creek Cove Park on the southwest corner of Tuttle Creek Reservoir. We arrived late on Friday night and all went pretty well getting things set up with a couple of exceptions. We pulled through and the dump and water station were right there by the front gate but not really accessible for someone pulling into the park and wanting to fill up tanks. As I sat there trying to determine if I could figure out how to make the VERY tight turn back into the dump station for water the workkamping fella drove up and asked why I needed water as there were hookups at each site in the park. WELL WOOOOOOHOOOOO, that just make life easier. Until we blew by the entry to our camping area and had to back up the road to get back to the site. I wasn't real familiar with the layout of the park so I felt it was better to back up a bit than spend time wandering around the park trying to get back to where we were. Anyhow we had the only pull through site at the park and finally made it onto out site, got everything leveled and settled down for a beer just before midnight.

We didn't spend a whole lot of time actually at the park other than sleeping and eating but from the time we did spend there this was a pretty nice park. With good sites and water hookups all the way around. They had nice aluminum picnic tables at each site and even had several logs and kindling sitting by the fire ring for all the sites. We parked right on the lake (see pics below) and it was a bit windy as can be expected with a north wind coming off the lake but I will definitely take the family down sometime down the line and actually spend some time at the park. The HOSTS at the park were very friendly and helpful as we didn't exactly keep to the exact GATE hours but they treated us very well. The were Good Sam's so that really doesn't surprise me.





Hutch joined us on Saturday morning and the four of us hit the lynx at Colbert Hills. This course rocks and is the number one rated course in Kansas. Its 7500 yards from the tips and of course we had to play it from the tips. My score card read 56/46 for a 102 with a little generosity coming during the rainy and cold conditions we had for the last 5 holes. James was similar and both Hutch and Matt did better than us as expected (at lease somewhat).

The course is VERY beautiful and spread out, I wouldn't want to walk this course even if I were in any kind of shape.

Preparing for the challenge.

Action shot usually followed by a few curse words. :-)

Followed by a lot of trampling through the native grasses.

Manhattan is a pretty nice smaller town, I even got a picture of the "Bill Snyder Family Stadium" and took a tour through campus and to James's old fraternity house. Looks like I could have gotten into a LOT of trouble there if you know what I mean.

We hit the town on Saturday night and I won't go into details in order to protect the innocent (or in our case the guilty) but suffice to say we are defiantly not 21 anymore but sometimes we tend to think we are. OUCH.....

We rounded off the trip by traveling back through Fairbury and playing at the site of the famous "TUCKY Two Tooth" and had a nice round there. I've probably played this course in the neighborhood of 30 times over the course of the years and I can safely say this was the first time I EVER played it when there wasn't a BUSCH Light in site. Don't think there will be for at least a while either...

The HOOT in Action...

Matt praying...

The gang...

A very fun but too quick weekend.

Until next time...

Bc