Clay Bay turned out to be a very nice anchorage. Plenty of water way back into the bay, anchored in 12 feet. Almost hit the shoal at entrance...keeping further away from the green buoys there on the way out.
It's an east west bay so the sun sets in the middle of the bay and comes up again on the other side! Lots of pictures taken....gotta love digital. The south side of the anchorage is a large hill so there's good wind protection. Scenic shoreline with lots of rock outcrops. Waxing moon. The usual bass fishermen.
We had a pair of bald eagles join us in the evening. They have a nest near the top of the tree line. Magnificent birds.
I made us a couple of walking staffs out of some American Hornbeam, othewise know as Ironwood...amazingly hard wood to cut! I stripped off all the bark thinking about Tom and Huck or even Friar Tuck! Life on the river...resources aplenty. Also found an old medicine bottle that had floated high up during the spring floods...it was a castoria bottle but had another name on it....Chas. H. Fletcher...my grandfather's name! just as I've seen it spelled many times.
A BIG day for us yesterday....we put in 18 miles, the most in over a month! We are going to break that record again today.
We've really enjoyed this LBL area and look forward to coming back again.
On up the Tennessee
The sun goes down over the Tennessee River
Kayaks back home at our stern
GTB Sunrise
You're barn's on fire!
6 weeks of smoking the tobacco leaves to create snuff or chewing tobacco!
Twins Chase Vehicle on the Loop
It's a courtesy car on the move if you can catch us with it!
what a mess....pulled anchor....and raised a bramble patch..Bassholes strike again!!!!!
a bunch of branches wired together to a rock caught in our anchor...wire cutters please!
They started a burn ban yesterday in LBL due to drought and the leaves falling.
luckily we enjoyed a fire earlier in the week
When they dammed Lake Barkley, they did not cut any of the trees first so you find them at anchor
this was the top of a tree we pulled up in the morning after swinging for two nights!
The water is down for the winter pool
so you can see the bridge and road!
Louisville Slugger Bat
Unscheduled stop in Louisville
Ryder Cup and the Slugger
Finally Some real exercise
We rode the bikes from the anchorage to the boat show....sore legs after the up's and downs, particularly the gravel up to the highway!
Finally some time for fishing....
....looks like fish on the grill tonight!
First Meal out in Paducah
a Pizza from a nice wood fired oven at Max's to celebrate the Loop closing of "Our Turn"
Covered in fish flies from the anchorage
The Gulls went crazy!
Sun's up on Peoria Lake
...leaving the Blue Point Creek Anchorage
Stern Anchor Chain
from the muddy waters by Blue Creek Point
Ottawa FREE wall (from the porch of the Ottawa Boat Club)
end of week one!
Lying along the wall in Chicago Harbor!
north of the Chicago Harbor Light
Lying along the wall at St Joe
End of Day One....day two too!
Leaving Spring Lake under the Grand Haven Bridge
THE Journey Begins
The burgee on the big lake Mishegame...north wind at one knot!
August 2008.....
Time to hit the water
North Channel 2007
Benjamins
About us....
- TWINS
- Spring Lake & Punta Gorda, Mishegame or the FL sandbar
- Their blog chronicles the journey of Jim and Vaughn aboard their boat TWINS as they travel the Great Loop (aka Great Circle), their multi-year circumnavigation of lakes, rivers, and waterways around the Eastern United States.
Paella on the rocks....
North Channel Cuisine
cooking paella over an open wood fire
have pan will travel....
resting before consumption!
Twins at Anchor
Heywood Island, North Channel
Anchored at the cut...
Beardrop Harbour