Grand Harbor Marina

Monday, October 20, 2014

Stats:
From MM 207 on the Tennessee River to MM 215, Grand Harbor Marina.  9:00 - 10:30.  8 Miles

We had planned to get up early and make the short run to Grand Harbor Marina to meet up with other Loopers for a museum visit but those plans got quickly kiboshed when we looked out the window. Fog.  Lots of it.  Thick as pea soup.  We were staying put in our little corner of the lake.  Through the mist we could hear voices and a boat putting along, getting closer.  Then there they were, right beside us.  Funny to hear the guys reacting to their surprise in finding a trawler anchored there in the mist. Yes, buddy.  We're here. Thanks for approaching slowly.

Eventually the sun did its thing and we started to inch on. It was amazing how quickly the fog dissipated once it got going and a clear blue sky was revealed.

We pulled into the Marina and docked behind the boatAs the Crow Flies. They are the folks we met back in Nashville.They had a courtesy car booked for the morning for a trip into a Civil War Museum and they had kindly delayed their departure until we arrived.  The Museum at Shiloh is where one of the first big battles of the Civil War took place.  The U.S. does a wonderful job of preserving their history and it was actually quite moving.  They started with a movie that explained the battle followed by a driving tour around the park showing where the actual battles took place.  It was very sobering to think that this 1000 acre wooded park is where 23,000 young soldiers died.

The afternoon was spent doing chores like boat cleaning and reprovisioning the boat.  Later in the evening we enjoyed "docktails" on the dock with the folks from As the Crow Flies.  On the right is a picture of Jeff, Grant and Cindy trying to attract the garpike so I could take a picture.  Unsuccessful, so I took a picture of them instead!

Today we'll do a little laundry and slowly start poking our way down the Tenn-Tom canal.