We all were hoping that mother nature would dish up 3 good boating days for the Memorial Day weekend, we have had worse, and we certainly have had better, Saturday was a little cool to start, but developed into a decent afternoon, nice enough to tempt the youngsters into the water, but cool enough that they headed straight to the beach fire when they came out of the water, (wonder if they thanked gram-pa for the fire).
Sunday was a much nicer boating day, the sun brought out boats of all kinds, we had pontoon boats, jet boats, fast boats, slow boats, cruisers, jet ski, all enjoying the day boating on the river. in the Philo pool the sand bars were the popular choice for stopping and mingling with fellow boaters and swimming for the kids. Once the volley ball net was up the games were on.
The sand bar on Sunday afternoon.
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The quieter side of a day enjoying the river.
Monday; Memorial Day was not quite as boater friendly as Sunday with rain in the morning, this gave the boaters that needed a little extra recovery time a nice break without missing out on prime boating conditions. Late afternoon early evening it cleared up and was great for a sunset river cruise to closeout the holiday weekend.
All said and done it was a pretty good start to the boating season, the river is at normal pool and running clean, the locks are all open from Lock # 10 (Zanesville) to Lock # 2 (Devola). The 30 day forecast is for Summer like temperatures, so get out there and do some river boating and enjoy yourself boating on the Muskingum River.
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Boat often and Boat safe.
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