WOLF ISLAND Anchor to FLORENCE AL / Saturday, September 24 to Sunday, September 25 (Days 247-248)

Admiral's Log:     7:10 am, Sat. 9/24/16
                         Air Temp:   79     Water Temp:   80
                        Winds:   calm
                        Speed:   10 mph

Mike called the Lock Master at Pickwick Lock and Dam and he said if we left now there should not be a problem getting locked.  As we got to the dam a tow was just exiting so we went right in and were raised 55 feet.  This dam is the entrance to Pickwick Lake off the Tennessee River. It is 1000 feet long, that's 3 football fields!

GPS screen shot of us in the Lock

Bottom of the chamber.

After our 55 foot raise.

Eagle eating his catch.

We've seen as many Blue Herons here as we see at home.

Pretty houses on the river.

This one is for sale!

Junction of Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama state lines.

We arrived at Florence Harbor Marina at 2. We saw No Schedule and Miss Bailey docked there as well.  After we checked in we visited John and Sandy on No Schedule. They had crossed their wake at this marina a couple of days ago. They plan on spending the winter near us in Palmetto. So I'm sure we will be seeing them again soon.

We ordered dinner out from the marina restaurant so we could watch a very exciting and nerve racking game between Auburn and LSU, which we won at the last second! 

Sunday, I caught up on the Blog to this point while Mike did the usual boat maintenance. We took the courtesy car to the grocery and watched a little football. Then our old neighbors from Scottsboro, Steve and Charlotte Austin who now live in Athens, drove over to see us at the marina. We had drinks on the boat and caught up on 16 years since we'd seen them. We had a nice Italian dinner in downtown Florence. Florence is a cute older town. On our trip back through here on our way to the TenTom, we plan to take in a few of the local sites.