Hi Everyone, hard to believe it's month end again. August flew by.
Well, we made it to Pensicola, Florida. That was our goal and WE MADE IT!!
I'll go back here to Friday a.m. We left our swanky accomodations at Bobby's Fish Camp Friday before sunrise and we were getting the boats all ready when coming down the river came the bright, sweeping search light of a towboat with barges. We had gotten up really early to hopefully beat them to the last Lock and Dam three miles down, that we had of the trip. Dang, commercial takes priority and the lockmaster will take those barges, then what comes around the corner but a second tow of barges. We could have gone back to bed but the place was so disgusting! And since we were up we just stayed up. It was Jan's Birthday, so we had a little diddy for her and Well, we finally got thru our last Lock and Dam at 8:30. That makes 43 Lock and Dams for the whole trip.
We had a good 130 miles to go and didn't want to arrive at Mobile after dark so we really had to push. Our boat only has that 50 hp Yamaha on it, and the poor dear really got pushed that day, 5200 rpm for 10 1/2 hours. The highest we ever ran it. Full blast would have been 5600 rpm, so it really ran hard. Good Motor. The last 118 miles of the Tenn-Tom Waterway was the windiest river ever. It was never boring, just a little long.
Thank the Lord we came into the Mobile Commercial Harbor after working hours. Going thru this was incredible. There were sea-faring boats all over. They build battleships there and other very, very large boats . It was hard for little ole pontoons to pass thru that harbor, so we were really lucky not to be there when everything was moving. I'm going to split up our blog so I can get more pictures on, otherwise three is the max. onto the next
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