Behind the Outback ~ A Nomadic Adventure
Act V
We booked into Davis Lakes Campground, a public campground, for a week. Very Nice, 3 lakes and only 10 miles from the pow wow.
Scene I
12 August 2009 ~ Got a little twisted and missed a turn somewheres, so it took a little longer to get back up to Virginia than we though. Passed this place called the Great Dismal Swamp, Hmmm sounds like that would be right up my alley, gotta check it out after the pow wow! Anyways, Bear was NOT impressed with this travel day LOL.
Scene II
14 August 2009 ~ It has been raining since we got here, heading to the pow wow grounds to set up the shop this morning. So far so good, cloudy but not raining. Ahhh yeeeaaa, until we get to the Pow Wow grounds, then its pouring. Anyways, its on and off rainy while we set up. The pow wow is located at a beautiful state run park called Lone Star Lakes Lodge. Notice the Lone Star Below 
We found, from talking to their Chief, that this is the area in which their ancestors lived so many years ago! There were lots of shade trees and it was located on the Nansemond River. Someone else also told me that several years ago it was a sand quarry and they would run barges up the river to there and load with sand for building roads and such. Which explains these weird short boat dock looking things down on the rivers edge.
Scene III
15 August 2009 ~ Saturday was a little rainy still in the morning, but it stopped and cleared out just in time to POW WOW! The drum Eastern Bull Drum & Singers were absolutely Awesome. Check out their website www.easternbull.com and take a look at the videos I took of them.
We had a few surprises on Saturday as well. Nelson & Cyndy were visiting in Richmond, VA and they came down for the pow wow. Their Grandson danced in the circle with Nelson.
And our new friends Sandy & Bee were there and danced all weekend!
Scene IV
16 August 2009 ~ Sunday there was No rain at all and it was breezy and Beautiful. I must say that the people came out for this pow wow, rain or not, they came both days and the people in town knew about it. This pow wow has been going for about 21 years they said. It went till about 6pm and we put all the product away and came to get the barn on Monday, juss cuz we could 
Be sure to see my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Spiderwrulf and the Flickr Photo albums: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiderwrulf/sets/ for all the details. We will be travelling back to NC on wednesday.
Much Love and many prayers my fellow
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Spiderwrulf & Cloudwalker
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