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We had a long day traveling the last leg of the River System yesterday. We choose Little Lizzard Creek for the ancorage at the end of a long day. We set our anchors and settled in for a quiet, but cold night. No anchors moved and we slept like babies….

We all left Bashi Creek to more tug traffic on this final stretch of fresh water we’ll travel in for the next year-and-a-half. We also locked through the Coffeeville Lock today, the beginnings of saltwater and our last lock until we head north on the ICW in the spring. We did it…

Another early day as we depart Demopolis at 7 AM to cover 71 miles and one lock on our way to a postage stamp of an anchorage called Bashi Creek. Today, Freedom’s Turn, Our Turn, Roy-El and, of course, Kismet negotiated eleven tug boats with barges mostly on the tight…

42º that was the boat’s interior temperature when we woke up at 6 AM to leave for Demopolis Yacht Basin. We fired up the generator and stoked the furnaces and before we knew it our bones were warm again. The Demopolis stop was the last marina and opportunity to experience…

When we left Pirates Marina Cover we headed to our next anchorage, Sumter Landing. We are traveling with two other boats now. Roy-El caught up to us en route to this anchorage and Freedom’s Turn joined us at the end of the day. We had an impromptu happy hour to…

Pirates Marina Cove in Pickensville, Alabama, was our anchorage on this relatively short twenty-eight-mile day. We dropped our hook in calm waters in this little cove and even threw out a stern line for good measure. Around Midnight a storm came through along with some strong winds and our boat…

We stopped at Columbus Marina in Columbus, Mississippi for two nights to relax a bit as we’ll be on the move everyday for the next seven days. We’ve got 350 miles, four locks, a multitude of tugs with barges, locks and fog to negotiate before we make Mobile Bay and a…

We left Midway Tuesday morning at first light, which is now about 6:30 am. We had a long day ahead of us, mostly in light rain conditions. We went fifty-nine miles through four locks. The highlight of today’s trip was to be the stop in Aberdeen, Mississippi for a great…

We traveled 55 miles and went through three locks our first two days, spending the first night next to the Montgomery Lock Monday night.  It was a short jaunt to Midway Marina, in Fulton, Mississippi on the second day out. There were at least fourteen other looper boats already docked…

We were off early this morning to go the short distance to Lee Spry Marine, in Iuka, Mississippi, to have the boat hauled to have the props checked. Before we make our journey down the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway we wanted to make sure we had no damage from the debris we…

Sunday we returned to Grand Harbor Marina Resort where we were greeted by Chip, the Site Manager. This is a first class harbor that we have fond memories of from our trip in 2005/06.  We only enjoyed one short day and night here but for those that have never visited here before…

Our first stop after leaving Joe Wheeler was to return to McKernan Creek. We had barely gotten our anchor in the water when we were welcomed over the radio. Then just a few minutes later Pride Tompkins showed up to welcome us and invite us over to his house for…

We are now back to Joe Wheeler State Park in Rogersville, Alabama for a few days to catch up on boat chores and decide what our schedule will be on our next leg of the trip, going south on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. We need to have our boat taken out…

Today we had to raft up together in the small lock so it was a little different experience. Think we had only done this once or twice before. All went smoothly and again a beautiful, sunny, warm day.