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Happy Thanksgiving to all. We are out on the St. John’s river for a few days enjoying the trip greatly. Joyce found a couple of new animal species that she had never seen before. One is the round tailed muskrat….only found on the St. John’s watershed. The other was greater white fronted goose...

Dan Our reservation has not been cancelled yet either. Last year they canceled it a month before. I’ll know more next week. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Tom

Hi Tad Glad you and Toby will be back at Hontoon for 2024. We are going to be on the St. John’s during Thanksgiving week and will stop at the park to get an update from Devin. If they don’t have overnight slips there will be no need to reserve a slip. I’ll know more next week and will let...

Thanks for the extra effort for our gathering. C-Brats are the best……Tom

Hi Ken Sounds like your going to have a nice warm winter. Hontoon is a swell place. Joyce and I will be on the St.John’s river the week of Thanksgiving with the C-Otter. If you would like to get together sometime during the week give me a call. We’ve made a bunch of modifications and need to do...

Devin the Hontoon Island Park Manager sent me this photo of the new mattress and sheets that the group paid for at last years gathering. We also bought a small LP tank for the camper that is used for the campground host. These much needed items were only possible because of donations from...

mattress for camp host trailer

No problem….family always comes first. Thanks 😊 Tom

Just bringing this up again hoping that the administrators will set up an announcement and signup for the event. I sent them PM’s but perhaps did something wrong. I definitely appreciate this web site and all the hard work the administers do. Thanks ….Tom on the C-Otter

You’re welcome to come to the gathering…we usually have at least one Ranger Tug participant. Mid week works the best for the marina. Tom

Welcome to our 11th Annual Gathering at Hontoon Island on the St. John’s river near DeLand Florida. Always look forward to getting together with our fellow C-Brats here in Florida. Now for the good news….there was no further damage to the park this year from hurricanes. The not so good news is...

John. I talked this evening to Alex at Prizer which was really helpful. Prizer point, besides the marina is a rather large campground that in season is extremely busy. If campers had packages delivered here all the time it would be quite a burden on the staff. When they understood that the items...

Keith was able to get his reservation and Prizer reversed their decision and is allowing packages for him to be delivered there. All worked out….Tom

Keith We are at Prizer Point now. I talked to Shane at the Marina and they have 4 spaces left. I’ve been told the answering device has had problems. The number to call is 270-522-3762. If no one answers send me a PM with your number and I’ll walk over to the office and have them call you. They...

We’ve been out for about 3 weeks on the Cumberland now. Went as far as Old Hickory lake and are now back at Prizer Point for a couple days. Anchored out most nights with stops at Clarksville marina and Commodore Yacht Club. Colby I’ll be glad to show you the anchorage’s we used. There are a lot...

John The AIS receiver is the one we bought from you some years ago. Usually I do get the name of the vessel but not this time. Only showed a number by the location. I have Joyce write down the names in case we need to contact. Until we cleared the bend in the river I assumed it was a pleasure...

Watching out for tow boats. I love my AIS receiver here on the Cumberland River. As we were proceeding down river to an anchorage the chart plotter displayed an AIS target heading up around a bend in the river. We proceeded to work our way over to port to pass him on the two whistle. While doing...

Thanks for your input on the jet ski tragedy. We are anchoring in Skinny Dip bay on Old Hickory Lake for the night after leaving Commodore Yacht club. Had a great stay there and prices were reasonable. Good wifi and free ice and laundry. Planning on stopping again on the way back. The marina...

Colby=ice cream 😊 Left Clarksville this morning and proceeded slowly to the Cheatham Lock. The lock tender Mark told us to go as far upriver in the lock to the last bollard. Said we’d get a smoother lift and it was perfect. We called ahead from Clarksville and timed it so that we did not have...

Anchorage last night on North Cross creek near MM 95.8. The entrance looks kind of scary but we had about 5’ of water below the boat at the entrance then it got even better. Saw NO boats other than kayaks. And a beautiful area for canoeing or kayaking. Also an easy place to get dogs to shore...