Tennessee, Mississippi, now Alabama.....
Twins is currently attending the Fall Rendezvoux of AGLCA at the Joe Wheeler State Park on Wheeler Lake off the Tennessee River. There are about 100 loopers here and about 40 Looper boats. We were late comers as we decided to bring the boat down here from our winter berth at Aqua Harbor at the start of the Tenn Tom waterway.
We arrived at Aqua Harbor last week and spent three days there before we decided to come to Wheeler. We spent a day coming up here and went through two locks including the largest lock west of the Mississippi, the Wilson lock with a rise of about 95 feet. We had a lot of turbulence in the lock and scratched our rub rails a couple of times against the wall on the way up.
Our trip up the Tennessee was fun. We anchored at Birdsong Creek by ourselves for a night and then were joined by 5 other Loopers at Double Island Anchorage before arriving at Aqua Harbor. We used a courtesy car to go to Corinth which has a Civil War Interpretive Center. We will go to the Shilo Battlefield next week when we are back at Aqua.
It's been a good ride so far. We've now crossed the 1000 mile mark.
We will spend the winter at Aqua and keep the boat on the Tennessee River system next year before we move down the Tenn Tom to Florida next fall.
All plans subject to change....such is life!
We arrived at Aqua Harbor last week and spent three days there before we decided to come to Wheeler. We spent a day coming up here and went through two locks including the largest lock west of the Mississippi, the Wilson lock with a rise of about 95 feet. We had a lot of turbulence in the lock and scratched our rub rails a couple of times against the wall on the way up.
Our trip up the Tennessee was fun. We anchored at Birdsong Creek by ourselves for a night and then were joined by 5 other Loopers at Double Island Anchorage before arriving at Aqua Harbor. We used a courtesy car to go to Corinth which has a Civil War Interpretive Center. We will go to the Shilo Battlefield next week when we are back at Aqua.
It's been a good ride so far. We've now crossed the 1000 mile mark.
We will spend the winter at Aqua and keep the boat on the Tennessee River system next year before we move down the Tenn Tom to Florida next fall.
All plans subject to change....such is life!
Leaving LBL and crossing into Tennessee today
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
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
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