Beautiful Downtown Blue Eye

So, thought I’d show you some of the local flavor here. Blue Eye sits on the shore of Table Rock lake. It is the headwaters of the White River that flows through Arkansas to the Mississippi. Here is the dam from the tailwater area above the next lake in the system (Tany Como).

The lake is not above normal; they are letting water out from the top of the lake to help oxygenate the river below.

The result was about five feet deeper water where we usually fish. You would only be able to fish by boat.

The bank shows evidence of the water being even higher in the past.

The Landing in Branson is a few river miles downstream on Lake Tany Como. It is a tourist mall with a few hotels and a huge Bass Pro Shop anchoring one end. Two weeks before Thanksgiving and the Christmas decorations were already going up.

The fountain light show

The stags are seasonal and used to be anatomically accurate until the locals protested. It would just be too traumatic to expose the children to such accuracy.

Meanwhile, back in Blue Eye

Sorry for the poor quality but it says that Blue Eye is home to “Morningside, The Home of the Jim Baker Show”.

He has a residential development, complete with apartments, large home sites and a mini mall. As well as a TV studio.

The mini mall

But that is not Blue Eye’s only claim to fame. There is a great hamburger joint. Blue Eye Burgers.

Roger and Claire live in a nice little development of mostly lakeside homes one one of the many peninsulas in Table Rock Lake. This is the house on the tip of the peninsula. It is the only one with a long gated drive.

This is a house close to theirs, on the corner of Lakeshore and Rye.

The little white crosses used to be much more prevalent around the neighborhood. This is not the place to display your FSM and NPR bumper stickers. Here is a link to some interesting images that will give you an idea: He boiled

We’ve had three inches of “perfect weather” since Thanksgiving but it remains above freezing.