Saturday

October 29, 2016

We will be finishing up the Tenn-Tom today.  There were a total of 10 locks on the Tenn-Tom:  Jamie L.Whitten, Montgomery, John Rankin, Fulton, Glover Wilkins, Amory, Aberdeen, John C. Stennis, Tom Bevill and the Howell Heflin.  We have two more locks before entering mobile bay.  Those two locks are on the Black Warrior River and the Mobile River.  

Yesterday, Joell spent a few hours watching for Alligators.  She didn't see any yet.  Looks like at anchor tonight or tomorrow during the day is our best bet at seeing any.  Since no alligators were spotted yesterday, we swam in the river one last time.  We were at anchor with our buddy boat, Myron and Lynda.  They are staying at Demopolis, AL tonight, while we anchor again.  We will meet up with them again at 0700 tomorrow morning.  

When we anchor tonight, we will be 214 miles from mobile bay.  We have been traveling 40 to 60 miles a day.  We will do a few longer runs in the next couple of days.  At most, we run ten miles an hour.  

A few pictures from the last few days to follow, this evening.

Mile Marker 243 on the Tenn-Tom

A Tow running at night past our anchorage...

Elwood in one of the locks...

Flooded river area...

Mostly all Loopers...

Industry along the river...

A phone booth on the rivers edge...

An old paddle boat removed from the river and used for ???

Mikee Likes It rafted stern to port with Miss Bailey for the evening...

Having drinks with Myron and Linda on Miss Bailey...

Elwood after a swim at our anchorage...

On the river at 7am...

Rivers edge...

Here's Enterprise following us...

We wake at 6 am, leave our anchorage at 7 am.  Today we ran 63 miles, went through only one lock today at aprox. 8 mph and found our next anchorage around 3:30 pm just above the Demopolis Lock and Dam.  Tomorrow we repeat it all again...  but we're getting much closer to the Gulf of Mexico.

Our anchorage for Saturday evening...a little skinny getting in, but floating is 12 feet of water.