Day 84
Miles Traveled: 29
Total Miles Traveled: 1766
We were able to sleep in a little since our planned anchorage was not very far away. We threw off the lines about 9:30 am and the convoy of "Sundowner", "El Nido", "Pimaro" (a sailboat), and "Galena" (who is not a looper and just bought his, of all things, Mainship 350/390 (our boat)) headed toward Bevill Lock. Three other southbound cruisers locked through as well, so we had 8 boats in the chamber - that was a record number for us.
We saw a lot more eagles today. Two of them posed nicely just before we locked through. Many were flying around and we even saw a young one whose head hadn't turned white yet.
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| Two eagles ready for their picture |
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| Young eagle |
The Tenn-Tom Waterway christened our bow. As we were heading into our selected anchorage we inadvertently beached the bow of the boat on a mud shoal (shallow area) off the entry point. The depth finder which is located in about the middle of the boat was still reading 24 feet, so we both had very confused looks on our faces when we came to an abrupt halt. Fortunately, since it was a very quick drop off, we were not "hard aground" (stuck on land) and were able to back the bow of the boat off of the shoal. We decided to move further downriver to another anchorage and that endeavor was much more successful. "Pimaro" joined us in this anchorage.
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| Upper Cooks Bend Cut Off Anchorage |
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