The Clouds Above Us

What a perfect day to be on the water....all those white fluffy clouds above Miss gg!  Well, there was that one dark fella that tagged along all day but caused no problems.

Leaving our Marina.

We left Green Turtle Bay after I walked to town and back...... I knew I would not be getting off the boat since we are anchoring out for a few days so I did the short walk for some last minute exercise.

The Captain was about ready to drop the lines when I returned so I hustled and climbed aboard. The wind was blowing enough to move us off the dock slightly after the last line was dropped. Walter usually throws this line aboard and then finds the intake vent on the side of the boat, puts one foot there and climbs up over the side rail. I have even learned to do this also when necessary.

It was a short trip to the pump out dock where a marina manager met us to help with this necessity.

As we cruised outside the marina we came back into Barkley lake. We first entered this lake from the Barkley Lock the day we arrived at Green Turtle Bay. For those of you watching our Loop Cruise on the satellite tracker you will notice some back tracking there... yep!  We missed the starboard side turn to the Barkley canal. We were just enjoying the beauty of Barkley Lake and didn't realize the Chart Plotter was zoomed in too far to see the canal turn!  But fortunately the first mate remembered there was a canal and I began to wonder where it was.......??????

As we were about to enter the canal we heard a barge calling on the radio giving warning that they were coming into this canal and what direction they were heading. So I wondered how narrow it was...fortunately, even though we had to turn around and go back, we got there before any barges entered the canal and we exited right before a BIG tow with 24 barges come into it.

Now we were in the Beautiful and large Kentucky Lake.

We passed a section of rocky cliffs on the East side.

On the other side it looked like large houses but we were too far away to know for sure.

There are dozens of bays on the East side of this lake. They make great places to anchor.  Here is one we passed.

The Captain has decided to go a bit faster as he reasoned that slowing down would save fuel but we would be on the water longer. There is a balance here some where. :-)

So we increased the speed a little bit. We leave a big wake any way but now it seemed wider.......and appeared to flow nearly to the banks of the lake.

 And this is why we slow down for fishing boats and sail boats.

For those following us with land maps this is the Eggner's Ferry Bridge which is US highway 68 as it crosses the Tennessee River in Kentucky.  We went under this bridge.

I don't want to get anyone confused but I have been mixed up today myself. We are now in the TN River which is flowing through the Beautiful Kentucky lake. And we are anchored on the TN side of the lake in a little finger bay off the river called Ginger Bay. 

We are completely tucked around the corner from the River so the wakes of the passing tows shouldn't bother us. 

The first thing Walter did once he knew the anchor was holding was to jump in the water and cool off!  It was cold so he didn't stay in long.

Good sleeping tonight!