Grand Harbor condos at Marina
Pickwick Lock
Looper friends at Freddy T's
Noah Genda in the fog @ Clifton Marina.
Wed 9/30/09 night we had a quiet night at Clifton Marina in Tennessee. We had fog again in the am, so I fixed a low cal breakfast of biscuits and gravy. We departed about 9:00 am and fought the heavy 5 -6 MPH current from the flooded river for 50 miles. Our guide book said some bollards were missing from the 57’ Pickwick lock wall however we thought surely by now they were replaced. Not so. I think there were only two on our left side and it was impossible to determine if the pin was there or not until you were next to them. The current was much better after the lock. We planned to stay at Pickwick Marina but it is closed for upgrades so we went on to Grand Harbor, 5 additional miles up river on the Tenn-Tom. What a classy place as you can see from the condo picture.
We met up with couples that we had met earlier and had dinner at “Freddy T’s”. Fun time and good food. Today I went with them to a place called Shiloh which is a National Military Park in TN. The civil war was fought here for 2 days. They had a very educational film and then a driving tour around the park. Tom stayed at the boat and cleaned.
Later we used the marina courtesy car (new Nissan 4-door Pick-up) went for groceries, did laundry and went for a dinghy boat ride on Yellow Creek and went over to Aqua Marine and looked at the large harbor and hundreds of boats. Also there are some extremely beautiful high end homes surrounding Yellow Creek/Aqua Marine Harbor, as well as very large expensive homes on Pickwick Lake.
After a 2-day lay-over at Grand Harbor, we think we will continue up the Tennessee River towards Chattanooga and back to Joe Wheeler State Park for the Rendezvous the end of October.
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