Tellico River

10/14
Had a line of thunderstorms pass by last night right around midnight, but other than some loud thunder and a few flashes of lightning, there was little rain. This morning Steve and Karen on Sea Spray enjoyed visiting the Sequoyah Birthplace museum, then caught back up with us. Not a lot of photos from today. We mostly just enjoyed exploring the Tellico River and several branches off of it. Corntassel Branch had some nice homes. Notchy Creek had a large campground area with a long dock with boat slips for camper’s boats. Ballplay creek was fairly short with mostly just scenery. We continued down the Tellico River to river mile 12. Actually Mystery Girl continued down to 12. I turned around at 11, SeaSpray at 10, and Sunbeam at 8. This was a little more stressful than I cared for. Chart said Narrow Channel and Stumps from RM 8. It was interesting to see that someone had placed red and green PVC pipes to mark the channel, and there were a lot of stumps and trees along that channel. I was surprised to see a number of homes and boats at Miles 10 and 11, and Bill said there were more at mile 12. I definitely would not want to make that trek down that channel frequently! Trees look like they are slowly turning colors. And with upper 30’s and low 40’s for low temps forecast the middle of this week, I think we’ll start to see a lot more color. This evening we are all anchored in a small branch at Tellico River mile 6.En savoir plus