We anchored last night at Zippy Branch. Our first night out on the hook and technically, our first night on the Loop. It was a quiet anchorage and we heard coyotes howling. It was a beautiful evening and we ate out on the cockpit by candle light. We set the anchor alarm and had quiet night on the Tennessee river.
Today we enteered into the section of theTennessee Tombigbee Waterway called the "Divide Cut". The Tenn-Tom Waterway was cut through the backbone of the land here to a depth of as much as 175' for a distance of nearly 25 miles. We are now on the Great Loop Route! We will be heading on down the river to the Whitten Lock, with a drop of 85 feet. It is the ninth highest single lift lock in the US. From this location we will be going downhill, from about 414 feet above sea level
to the Gulf of Mexico.
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| Zippy Branch, our first anchorage near Grand Harbor Marina. |
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| A stroll on the bank, Tennessee River behind us. |
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| Passing our first barge on the Tenn Tom Waterway. |
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| Our wake stirs up lunch for the birds. Bonn Appetite! |
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| Baffles are used to prevent flooded creeks from rushing into the river. |
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Time to pop the cork!
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We are celebrating starting on the Tenn-Tom Waterway, offficially the beginning of the Great Loop for us! Champagne compliments of Jack and Sukie Murphy, our friends back home. Fantastic day boating. We did two locks today and will anchor out tonight close to an island by Rankin Lock and Dam. Looks like we may be in for some bad weather.
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