Music City

Here we are at Rock Harbor Marina on the West side of Nashville. We pulled in here about 3:30 this afternoon.  It was a great trip from Green Turtle Bay in Grand Rivers, KY.  About a 150 mile trip. We pulled away from the Green Turtle dock at 8:30AM on Thursday.  It was so cold we had on a hoodie and a windbreaker.  Later we added a blanket when we were in the wind. We traveled about 50 miles and anchored off the river in a feeder stream in about 15 feet of water. Friday we did another 50 miles and tied up the the courtesy dock at Clarksville.  Now if you want to see what a city can do with a river front, Clarksville is a great example. A couple of miles of waterfront has been turned into a park.  A new marina is scheduled to open soon. Saturday was a beautiful day.  Rolling down the river was perfict.  We only passed a couple of tows and the pleasure craft were few.  Rock Harbor is not what it once was.  The flood and a change in ownership has taken its toll.  The Bluemoon resturant is no longer here and a lot of the boats have also gone elsewhere.  But it was a welcome site and we are glad to be back home for a while.  We will spend about a month here making repairs and attending to home things.  BJ's wedding is two weeks from today so that is first on our piority list.  After that we will get the boat ready for the next phase of our trip.  We will then travel back the three days to Grand Rivers and join the Tennessee River and start our trip South.  It is still our intentions to spend the winter in South Florida.

We still have a lot of events and stories that did not get reported along the way, so I will continue to do the blog when we are home.  With good connections we will be able to send you pictures to compliment our stories.  When leaving  Lake Michigan and boating through Chicago you must travel on what is known as the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.  It is such a polluted river that years ago it was reversed in order to not pollute Lake Michigan.  Now it sends all the stuff south.