SATURDAY
TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 40 NM
HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY TIM TYREE!!
The morning dawned with a heavy blanketing fog. You know you were in a marina but couldn’t see the other boats docked all around. The sun soon remedied this problem, burning off all those lingering clouds and clearing up the sky for a beautiful day.
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| DEWY WEB |
When we had eaten breakfast, completed the laundry and remade the bed we cast off and headed towards Chattanooga. We pulled out of the marina on the Yellow Creek and motored on back to the Tennessee River at MM 215. Since the Yellow Creek is the connector to the Tenn-Tom Waterway, we will be back here when we finish with our little diversion and are, once again, headed south.
OK, so here we are on the Tennessee River with Alabama shores to our port side and Mississippi land to our starboard. At MM 224.5 we were officially in Alabama.
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| ALABAMA TO THE LEFT AND MISSISSIPPI TO THE RIGHT |
This riverboat was moseying down river near Florence and these tee pees were pitched in a Cyprus campground, both shades of the past
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| PICKWICK BELLE |
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| WILD INDIANS? |
We approached the Wilson Dam and Lock located at MM 259.4 and were told that the water was being lowered for our lock up and that our ride would be more comfortable if we caught a bollard either way up front or at the back. That is the kind of thing that endears those helpful lock masters to all us boaters.
Image via WikipediaThe Wilson Dam is 137’ high and 4,541’ long. This historic landmark, named after President Wilson, boast fascinating arches that were reminiscent of those form the Roman Empire.
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| THE OLD LOCK IS ON LEFT THE THE MASSIVE NEWER LOCK IS OPEN TO WELCOME US. |
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| YA ALL, COME ON IN! |
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| HOLY COW! THAT'S A LONG WAY UP THERE! |
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| THE FLOATING BOLLARDS THAT WE TIE UP TO |
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| THE ROMANESQUE ARCHES |
Exiting the lock, we were in the 15 mile long Wilson Lake. This may not be a large lake but it has depths to 125’. We found some extraordinary homes on the shore and a lovely little anchorage up the Six Mile Creek at MM 266. We swung to our starboard and crept into the creek, watching our depth and keeping to the deepest parts. We settled in a bend just off this beautiful home and sat back to enjoy the falling leaves, lurking herons and jumping fish. Nice!
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| MEGA MODERN LAKE HOME |
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ANTEBELLUM STYLE LAKEFRONT HOME HARD TO FIND ENTRANCE TO SIX MILE CREEK REFLEXIONS ON THE CREEK |
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