Molly’s Great American Loop

Today we did a long day, leaving anchor as soon as Moki and I returned from his morning walk and only stopping for a few minutes around lunchtime. We initially planned to stop at Wolf Island a popular Anchorage about 7 miles from the Pickwick lock but it’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow so decided to continue on and try to lock thru today. It was a beautiful sunny day today! On the way we were buzzed by an Air Force fighter jet… that sucker was screaming! Scared James and me…😱😱.. scared the cat..🙀!! All happened too quick for a pic but pretty cool. We made it to the lock just as boats were entering so lock thru was painless. Tonight we are at anchor off some TVA lands where a hilly and wet 1.4 mile hike led us to a waterfall. Because sunset is so early we only had an hour before last light so we ran… getting back just as the sunset was getting pretty. Not many pics … it was a busy day. 77 miles!En savoir plus

We traveled 5 miles today in rather sporty seas to an anchorage in a cove with a waterfall! Yellow Creek Falls is just inside Mississippi on the Tennessee River and the cove is beautiful. It’s actually just beyond our cutoff for the Tenn-Tom but so worth an extra couple miles. We are mostly surrounded by cliffs with the waterfall in the back and a beach of shale rock fragments in front along the river. This afternoon Moki and I climbed to the top of the falls from the beach. We actually had to go way up above the falls and then back down to reach it and then reverse that back to the beach. It was short but quite a hike. After we rewarded ourselves with some play time at the falls. It was nice to have a mostly down day even though I had a pretty busy work day. We also didn’t get much of the rain predicted… most of it went north of us. It is pretty windy though (gusts to 28 atm)… and still may rain overnight. Secchi 1.7 in 5.2 MEn savoir plus