To spend holiday in calm place where one can enjoy along with serenity, lake holidays are perfect. During lake holidays, one can enjoy the pleasure and love of nature. Nature is symbol of love that teaches men to be patient. It has the power to transform humans into a different spiritual creature. Chirping sound of birds, crystal-clear calm water with lots of fun activities to do makes Lake Holiday special and full of real enjoyment. There are many beautiful lakes in United States where one can spend their vacation in full enjoyment. Apart from enjoying the picturesque scenes of the countryside, one can enjoy various water activities.
Pleasure of Living Lakeside
The pleasure of living lakeside is one of the most enjoyable things for people. During your vacation, you can opt for living in lakeside cottages or houses built on the lakeshores. No matter what option you choose for your living. You will experience the silence of nature giving you a chance of self-exploration. The reflection of moon in the lake in moonlight creates a dream world around and one cannot oversee the beauty of this sight.
Lakeside Fun Activities
Lakeside holidays offer several fun activities to enjoy during your stay. People of all age group can have their share of fun during lake holidays. The wide range of activities includes lakeside fishing, sailing through the crystal-clear water of lake and looking at the fishes and other creatures inside water. Splashing cold water on each other is the most favorite activities of kids. They get enough time and place to enjoy these activities on lakeside holiday.
For people with adventurous mind, bone fire during night and preparing favorite meals right under the sky is a wonderful feeling. After the bone fire, you can enjoy group dance, solo dance or anything you want on the tunes of your music. Scuba diving is another adventurous activity loved by adventurous people. It gives them a chance to enjoy the inside beauty of water bodies. They can have glances of underwater living and capture them in their camera. Corals, snails, fishes, water plants and exotic deep blue water reminds of aquatic life and mesmerize you through excellent beauty.
Other Popular Lakeside Activities
Apart from above-described activities, people can enjoy several other things during lakeside holidays. They are listed as following:
Mountain biking and horse riding
Mountaineering, rock climbing and hiking
Ferry ride
Windsurfing/Kite surfing/Wake boarding and swimming
In brief, Lake Holidays are full of joy and pleasure, where one can enjoy beauty of nature with many fun activities. People of all age can enjoy the tour as lakeside vacations has something to offer to everyone. You can have some best moments of your life during lakeside tours.
Pleasure and Fun During Lake Holidays
February 2nd, 2010Picturesque Landscapes in Lakeside Living
January 21st, 2010When deciding on purchasing some property, you should be excited about the prospect of looking at new homes in Cherokee County, Georgia. Cherokee County is fast becoming one of the best places to live in Georgia. Atlanta is less than an hour’s drive away. Lake Arrowhead, a popular boating and recreation destination, is also located in Cherokee County. This picturesque area gives you the feeling that you can just kick back and enjoy all of what the natural surroundings can offer.
The relatively small and peaceful town of Waleska is located near Lake Arrowhead in Cherokee County. According to the 2000 Census, there were only 616 people living there at the time. Since then, developers decided that this area was a prime one for the development of new homes. Cherokee County with its rolling hills and beautiful landscapes has appeal for families looking to get away from the hustle and the bustle of the city!
Cherokee County, near Waleska now offers a number of gated home communities, and there is now a master planned community in the region. What has come to be the center of attraction for visitors and residents is Lake Arrowhead. It is a deep private lake encompassing 540 acres that is ideal for all kinds of water activities. Because the lake is spring-fed, the depth remains constant throughout the year. Many new lake front homes have their own boat slips, making it very convenient for residents to enjoy the lake and boating on it.
Lake Arrowhead is located in the rolling hills on the edge of the Smoky Mountains. It provides a picturesque forest landscape as a backdrop. Situated around the lake in Cherokee County new homes developers are building beautiful communities. Cherokee County prides itself as a suburban Atlanta get away area with beautiful vistas and many new homes. The Master Plan community developers at Lake Arrowhead are determined to keep the region as natural as possible, removing as few trees as they can. They intend to ensure the beauty of the lake by also leaving it largely untouched. This ensures that people will be able to enjoy the beauty and scenery for many years to come.
Cherokee County is an area that is around 50 minutes drive away from Atlanta. This means that you are still very close to all that the big city has to offer including allowing you to work in Atlanta while still living in a Cherokee County new home. You can still enjoy the hustle and bustle of Atlanta and, at the end of the day, come home to quality lifestyle unlike any other experience.
Parkview Boys and Wesleyan Girls Crush Competition for Georgia State Track Titles
January 17th, 2010ght © 2009 Ed Bagley
Parkview High School got wins from Ethan Kasson, Julian Vann, Taron Squires, Davin Nash and Sean Stephenson and rode a bunch of depth in other events to dominate the competition and win the 2009 Georgia State Boys 5A Track Championship.
Kasson won the 400, Vann the triple jump and Parkview took the 4 x 400 relay as Mill Creek had to settle for the runner-up spot with 39 points to Parkview’s 80.
In 4A competition, Kenneth Gilstrap won the 100 and 200 and was part of the winning 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relay teams as Miller Grove High School took the title with 71 points to Alexander’s 59. Not to be outdone, Stephen Hill added both a victory in the 300 hurdles and soared to the long jump title with a leap of 28-08.75. Hill’s leap becomes the best prep performance in the United States this season.
Sir Paul Jones doubled in the 110 and 300 hurdles to lead Monroe to the 3A title over Elbert County, 57-45.
Westlake easily won the girls 5A title over runner-up Collins Hill, 65-48. Westlake’s Zahra Thomas won the 400 in 55.34, Aubrielle Wright won the 800, Shani Chandler won the 300 hurdles, and Westlake took the 4 x 100 relay (with Thomas, Kinsley Lawson, Aminah Blount and Davita Washington) and 4 x 400 relay (with Thomas, Blount, Wright and Chandler).
5A competitor Chalonda Goodman of Newnan doubled in the 100 and 200 but did not exceed her leading times nationally in the 100 (11.30) or 200 (23.32). 5A competitor Amanda Winslow of Collins Hill doubled in the 1600 (4:44.97) and 3200 (10:42.70). Winslow’s 4:44.97 time leads all runners nationally in the 1600.
Kia Jackson doubled in the 100 and 200, and Morgan Snow won the 100 hurdles to lead Southwest DeKalb to the girls 4A title over Starr’s Mill, 61-54.
Monroe used wins by LaKeisha Jackson in the 100 hurdles, Mimieux Land in the high jump, and its 4 x 100 relay team (Jackson, Land, Alanesha McFarland and Kenza Bailey) to outlast Towers, 51-46, to capture the 3A championship.
Brittany Porter of Towers doubled in the long jump and triple jump. Porter is the top prep in the nation in the long jump with a leap of 20-03 and has another jump of 21-03.5.
In the 2A boys finals, Westminster ran away from runner-up Mitchell County 62 to 46 to win the championship with individual winners Maalik Reynolds in the high jump and LB Joel in the discus, and some depth that produced a lot of points that just kept adding up.
Warren County outscored runner-up Athens Christian 70.5 to 59 to win the 1A boys title as Warren County’s Coby Reynolds doubled in the 100 and 200 and then anchored the winning 4 x 100 relay team with Kentrell Latimore, Andrew Webb and Antonio Benton.
One of the best individual performances of the day was by Raymond Higgs of Athens Christian who personally scored 30 of Athens Christian’s 59 points by winning the high jump with an outstanding leap of 7-02.25 (the best of the day among all divisions), winning the long jump (24-04) and the triple jump (48-01).
Among the winning boys teams, it was both Westminster’s and Warren County’s 3rd state title. For the new kids on the block—Parkview, Miller Grove and Monroe—it was their first title ever. Legendary boys programs like Carrollton, with 24 state titles, and those with more recent success, like Landmark Christian with 7 straight titles, have had terrific success, but not this year.
The race for the title in the girls 2A Division was the closest of the day as Greater Atlanta Christian’s 49 points was enough to outlast the Jordan and Decatur teams which both scored 46 to tie for runner-up. Greater Atlanta Christian rode to their championship on Lauren Kester’s 3200 win and field victories by Jessica Tuggle in the triple jump and Claire Goodson in the pole vault.
Wesleyan amassed 83 points to run away with the girls 1A title as Darlington was runner-up with 51. The Wesleyan girls did not come to the meet to compete, they came to win with 1st place finishes by Erika Ramsey in the 1600, 4 x 200 relay (Emily Howell, Grace Leah Baughn, Caroline Miller and Chantel Kennedy), Anne Marie Armstrong in the high jump and Holli Wilkins in the shot put.
Wesleyan also had runner-ups in the 400 (Chantel Kennedy), and 4 x 100 relay (Elise Abernathy, Emily Howell, Erin Hall and Chantel Kennedy). Almost lost in the shuffle was an outstanding 400-meter winning time of 55.76 by Megan Malasarte while competing in the smallest school 1-A Division.
Among the winning girls teams, Southwest DeKalb won its 3rd straight title, Greater Atlanta Christian and Monroe won their 2nd, and Monroe and Wesleyan won their 1st. 1A powerhouse Landmark Christian, which had won 5 straight titles, 6 of the last 9 and tied in 2000 for 7 titles in the last 10 years, finished a distant 9th this year.
2009 Georgia State Champions – Boys 5A Division
Team Winner – Parkview with 80 Points – Runner-Up – Mill Creek with 39.
100-Meter Dash – 10.7 – Eric Harris of Kell High School.
200 – 21.18 – Eric Harris of Kell High School.
400 – 47.43 – Ethan Kasson of Parkview.
800 – 1:54.94 ‘Blair Obryant of Chapel Hill.
1600 – 4:17.36 – Kirubel Erassa of Grayson.
3200 – 9:21.99 – Tyler Anyan of Brookwood.
110 Hurdles – 13.93 – Aleec Harris of Duluth.
300 Hurdles – 37.95 – Justin Sims of Redan.
4 x 100 Relay – 41.46 – Stephenson (Raymond Sanders, Jonathan Blackley, Kerry Hartley and Richard Drake).
4 x 400 Relay – 3:16.98 – Parkview (Ethan Kasson, Taron Squires, Davin Nash and Sean Stephenson).
High Jump – 7-02 – David Smith of Lovejoy.
Long Jump – 24-06.5 ‘Demar Forbes of M. L. King.
Triple Jump – 47.01.25 – Julian Vann of Parkview.
Pole Vault – 14-06 – Michael Kopanski of Mill Creek.
Shot Put – 60-03.5 – Nabil Mubarak of Grayson.
Discus – 162.01 – Nabil Mubarak of Grayson.
2009 Georgia State Champions – Boys 4A Division
Team Winner – Miller Grove with 71 – Runner-Up – Alexander with 59.
100 – 10.44 – Kenneth Gilstrap of Miller Grove.
200 – 21.23 – Kenneth Gilstrap of Miller Grove.
400 – 46.85 – Andre Carter of Alexander.
800 – 1:53.2 – Vince Brown of McIntosh.
1600 – 4:27.21 – AJ Meyer of Northwest Whitfield.
3200 – 9:46.23 – Cameron Reed of Alexander.
110 Hurdles – 13.98 – Marcus Maxey of Clarke Central.
300 Hurdles – 37.91 – Stephen Hill of Miller Grove.
4 x 100 Relay – 40.95 – Miller Grove (Kendrick Ings, Johnathan Norris, Kenneth Gilstrap and Antione Hightower).
4 x 400 Relay – 3:19.55 – Miller Grove (Stephen Hill, Antonio Carter, Kenneth Gilstrap and Antione Hightower).
High Jump – 6-08 – Graylin Ward of Northgate.
Long Jump – 25-08.75 – Stephen Hill of Miller Grove.
Triple Jump – 47-05.5 – David Lee of Tucker.
Pole Vault – 14-00 – Jake Bridges of Northwest Whitfield.
Shot Put – 61-05.75 – Davis Fraker of McIntosh.
Discus – 181-01 – Davis Fraker of McIntosh.
2009 Georgia State Champions – Girls 5A Division
Team Winner – Westlake with 65 – Runner-Up – Collins Hill with 48.
100 – 11.54 – Chalonda Goodman of Newnan.
200 – 23.91 – Chalonda Goodman of Newnan.
400 – 55.34 – Zahra Thomas of Westlake.
800 – 2:13.09 – Aubrielle Wright of Westlake.
1600 – 4:44.97 – Amanda Winslow of Collins Hill.
3200 – 10:42.70 – Amanda Winslow of Collins Hill.
100 Hurdles – 14.12 – Jasmine Edgerson of Campbell.
300 Hurdles – 43.33 – Shani Chandler of Westlake.
4 x 100 Relay – 46.77 – Westlake (Zahra Thomas, Kinsley Lawson, Aminah Blount and Davita Washington).
4 x 400 Relay – 3:36.11 – Westlake (Zahra Thomas, Aminah Blount, Aubrielle Wright and Shani Chandler).
High Jump – 5-06 – Keira Peak of Lowndes.
Long Jump – 18-08 – Tamala Daley of Redan.
Triple Jump – 38-03 – Tamala Daley of Redan.
Pole Vault – 11-07 – Lauren Hutchinson of North Cobb.
Shot Put – 47-03 – Lauren Chambers of Kell.
Discus – 130-07 – Emily Brewer of Brookwood.
2009 Georgia State Champions – Girls 4A Division
Team Winner – Southwest DeKalb with 61 – Runner-Up – Starr’s Mill with 54.
100 – 11.63 – Kia Jackson of Southwest DeKalb.
200 – 24.86 – Kia Jackson of Southwest DeKalb.
400 – 57.17 – Morgan Williams of Northwest Whitfield.
800 – 2:18.09 – Morgan Williams of Northwest Whitfield.
1600 – 5:07.54 – Meghan Wetterhall of Lakeside DeKalb.
3200 – 11:07.16 – Meghan Wetterhall of Lakeside DeKalb.
100 Hurdles – 14.40 – Morgan Snow of Southwest DeKalb.
300 Hurdles – 43.53 – Sonni Austin of Miller Grove.
High Jump – 5-04 – Baiesha Johnson of Glynn Academy.
Long Jump – 18-04 – Baiesha Johnson of Glynn Academy.
Triple Jump – 38-06 ‘Cynia Clark of Lithonia.
Pole Vault – 10-0 – Jordan Cole of Alexander.
Shot Put – 42-11 – Patrice Gates of Villa Rica.
Discus – 133-09 – Katie Bragg of Starr’s Mill.