We left the dock at 8:30 and surprised a family of deer crossing the channel in front of us. Did they move fast!!
We are in the Tennessee Refuge area which is the winter home for over 200,000 ducks (24 varieties), 19,000 geese as well as semi-tropical birds like the yellowthroat, cuckoo, warbler and tanager as well blue herons, eagles and cormorants. The birds are still on the Mississippi Flyway so we are a bit ahead of them.
With showers predicted today, we decided to go only 20 miles. We had windy conditions and whitecaps on the river so we had to steer down below. It gave us a lot of time to talk about a timetable as a lot of Loopers will be leaving the Rendezvous at Wheeler Park so we may all be trying to congregate in the same marinas and anchorages.
Cuba Landing Marina is nestled in behind a small island and could be an anchorage. You have to make sure not to cut corners getting to the small channel as 2 boats today grounded. We met a lot of local boaters who were most welcoming. The new owners, Josh and Jessica, have done a good job.
We did not get rain this afternoon so Linda on ‘Cynthia Faye” asked us if we wanted to go geocaching. It is a type of scavenger hunt in which you get the location and clues on the “treasure” on the geocaching website, use your GPS to plot the coordinates, get there by car, foot, bike etc., and start looking for the cache. Linda is phenomenal at this, and found 4 out of 4. I was her driver and because I am taller, I got to reach up and grab the cache that she found.
We are in the Tennessee Refuge area which is the winter home for over 200,000 ducks (24 varieties), 19,000 geese as well as semi-tropical birds like the yellowthroat, cuckoo, warbler and tanager as well blue herons, eagles and cormorants. The birds are still on the Mississippi Flyway so we are a bit ahead of them.
With showers predicted today, we decided to go only 20 miles. We had windy conditions and whitecaps on the river so we had to steer down below. It gave us a lot of time to talk about a timetable as a lot of Loopers will be leaving the Rendezvous at Wheeler Park so we may all be trying to congregate in the same marinas and anchorages.
Cuba Landing Marina is nestled in behind a small island and could be an anchorage. You have to make sure not to cut corners getting to the small channel as 2 boats today grounded. We met a lot of local boaters who were most welcoming. The new owners, Josh and Jessica, have done a good job.
We did not get rain this afternoon so Linda on ‘Cynthia Faye” asked us if we wanted to go geocaching. It is a type of scavenger hunt in which you get the location and clues on the “treasure” on the geocaching website, use your GPS to plot the coordinates, get there by car, foot, bike etc., and start looking for the cache. Linda is phenomenal at this, and found 4 out of 4. I was her driver and because I am taller, I got to reach up and grab the cache that she found.
