Date October 29, 2011
Day 123
Departure Joe Wheeler State Park, Rogersville, AL 9:20
Arrival Riverwalk Marina, Decatur, AL 12:55 pm
Miles 28.0
Cumulative 2774.1
Up early to walk the dogs, and met fog again as we walked out the door.
Not a big deal today as we didn't plan on leaving early since we were traveling a short distance.. We have seen groups of small black ducks that have a white spot on their beak and a white spot under their tail. In researching in our bird book, we determined they were an American Coot. Since they are a diving duck, we haven't been able to get a good picture until this morning!
We were finally ready to leave and the fog had disappeared. We bid a fond farewell to Joe Wheeler State Park. We had a great time at this year's rendezvous. From the picture below, you can see that most of the 59 boats that were in attendance had already left by the time we cast off!
Today we would begin another side trip and head up the Tennessee River toward Chattanooga. Not sure if we will go all the way to Chattanooga, it is approximately 185 miles one way. We may just go as far as Huntsville or Scottsboro. That's the best part of this trip, no place we have to be at any particular time! Just before our destination for today, we caught up with Ookpik and Salty Paws, two other Looper boats. They continued on farther up the river, we pulled into Riverwalk Marina.
There is a small restaurant at the marina, the Hard Dock Cafe. We had an early dinner and discovered they were celebrating Halloween with a costume party. The staff was dressed in costumes. We were served by Morticia Adams and a pirate (argghh) stopped by! A band is also scheduled to play at 8:30 tonight; hope they aren't too loud.
We left the restaurant just in time to catch this great sunset over the city of Decatur, AL (can you see the moon sliver on the right?).
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