On The Boat Again

October 20th to October 31st

I know we have to catch up on a lot of blogging, but don't expect much and you might like it!

The boat spent an entire month at Cuba Landing and we did get some of the wood refinished. It also got a much needed washing!

Kelly's cousins drove over from Knoxville to see us. Dave and Diana Tisdale and their friends Mike and Carolyn also brought the rain so we just visited at the dock. Residents in their neighborhood are Ron and Eva Stob--authors of "Honey Let's Get a Boat" and founders of America's Great Loop Cruisers Association. Amazing how small the world can be!

So we have been out cruising for a week with Nikki and Carlin. Going up the Tennesse River we passed under I-40 and it started looking like river again instead of Kentucky Lake.

The first night out we went to Clifton Marina since it was too cool without heat. We met two boats also cruising the Great Loop: Stardust and Maravillas.
                                                      
The next day the weather warmed up considerably so we anchored out behind Swallow Bluff Island. No swallows but we did see a family of goats. Another boat was anchored there-the same boat we passed when we left Cuba Landing. "Adventure Quest" is also cruising the Loop. Notice that the leaves are finally getting fall colors!

We went up the Pickwick Lock--a new adveture for Nikki and Carlin!  

We spent two nights at the State Park Marina then anchored up Dry Creek. It is a very wide and calm cove. We watched Kelly fish and he caught several! But there wasn't enough for all of us, so he let them go.

By then it was Saturday and Dry Creek is very popular with local cruisers and fishermen. Just 4 miles up Pickwick Lake we went from Tennessee to Alabama to Mississippi within a couple minutes!!! 

On to Grand Harbor Marina to pick up our mail - two absentee ballots for the general election and two new debit cards. Now we can get cash, but I bet the new president will take it away! Grand Harbor is on Yellow Creek right before the start of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway so we saw many boats go by.

It is Halloween, so Carlin put his costume on for pictures! He is so cute as a little dragon.

Tomorrow we start down the Tenn-Tom.