10-05 Left the dock about 8 am with three other
Loopers. It is a beautiful October day
on the Tennessee River. If we have not
described it as such, this is the nicest section of the mid western Rivers we
have experienced since Chicago.
Beautiful landscape with nice homes here and there and sandy riverbanks.
It is a true recreational
area. After catching up with two more looper boats along the way, Hour Plan contacted the Pickwick lock to
let them know we had six pleasure craft heading there way and how was our timing
going to be? Well, pretty good. If we bumped up our speed a bit, we'd be
right on time for the lock up. . .and we were.
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| Approaching the Pickwick Lock |
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| Two boats in front of us entering the lock chamber |
Ten miles later we took a right
turn off the Tennessee River and were at Grand Harbor Marina. It's is a very large marina attached to a midrise condo complex.
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| Marina as seen from the water |
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| Observer in her slip |
There are a dozen or
so Loopers here. We grabbed the courtesy
car and joined three other Looper boats at the Aqua Grill for some openair
dining. Tim had shrimp and grits and the
grits were cheesy jalapeno - yeah! Tonight was the Hunter's Moon. I tried to capture it using the iphone, but did not have much success.
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| Photo taken from our table at dinner |
10-06 Lay day at Grand Harbor - there is some
weather (edges of tropical storm / Hurricane Nate) headed our way. As nice as
Grand Harbor is, there is not much to do around here. Our next stop is Florence, Alabama. There is quite a bit more to do there, so we
have made arrangements to cut our trip here short and move up our arrival time
at Florence. We did some boat chores,
did a little excursion in the dinghy to get Millie in the water,
then we
motored down to a nearby marina and checked out the boats there.
We hung out there a bit after dinner and caught up with folks who were returning from their dinners out.
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| Grand Harbor has these swinging covered benches right along the river. |
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| Fish at the dock attracted to the lights |
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