It’s been a while since we posted. We did move a bit. We motored through the Cumberland River to the Barkley Lake Lock, stayed at Green Turtle Bay and then crossed over to Kentucky Lake which is actually the Tennessee River. While at Grand Harbor Marina in Clifton, we visited Shilo. Visited the museum and took the 3-hour self-guided audio tour in our courtesy car. We were in Bay Springs Marina, MS for the last week trying to get our generator fixed again and waiting for the two locks to open up (closed for maintenance for a month). We left at noon today because they opened the Aberdeen lock and will be opening the Stennis lock in Columbus, MS at 6:00 Saturday. The restaurant at the marina had the best Philly cheesesteak sandwich I ever had. And I had many. Not as many as pizzas but a whole lot.
While waiting for the green light to enter the lock, we had to fight the rush of water being dumped from the chamber at the Barkley lock.
When inside the chamber, the stern-faced captain contemplated the wall of water that was on the other side of that 54′ gate.
Where the headquarters of each battalion was located, this type of monument was erected out of cannonballs.
The 5000 acre Shilo Memorial had a huge number of cannons, all positioned in the same areas that the original battalions had placed them.
First pizza in almost a week.
Grand Harbor Marina was one of the busiest we stayed at since Washington DC
Yes, another lock. Remember there are 117 on this route. What I tried to capture was the water squirting out from the walls. Is that supposed to happen in this 84′ high lock? Way behind our boat there was a stream squirting out at least 20 feet into the lock chamber.
An eerie mist formed along the TenTom Waterway this afternoon as we were entering a marina. Notice the trees that were submerged when the dam was created and flooded this area. They often leave the timber, submerged roads, etc. and only clear the main channel. Built in the 20th century, the waterway is 234 miles long and was intended to relieve some of the traffic from the Mississippi River. We saw very few barges on this waterway.