Day 134 Sale Creek to Chattanooga Sunday September 30, 2018

Day 134 Sale Creek to Chattanooga Sunday September 30, 2018

The sky had a few clouds to start - then clouded up with showers - then cleared to a nice warm afternoon.  Temperatures were low 60s to low 80s

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The sun was looking for some holes in the clouds to rise and shine through as you can see below.

As we were going out the channel the sun  was hiding behind the trees

But we found it!!

A short ways down the river was another nuclear plant - thought the cooling towers looked almost like art in the bright sun.

We traveled about 2 hours to reach Chicamauaga Lock. As you can see the day has become cloudy and we had rain showers start in the lock - and yes we drove straight on in.

We arrived in Chattanooga about noon. You can see the sun is out after our ride from the lock of only about 45 minutes. Just up from our marina there is an Ironman competition going on.

 And we got there just as the leader was coming through the bike to run transition point.

We wanted to see the Hunter art museum up on the "Cliff." There is a wonderful pedestrian walk via the old bridge that was saved from demolition and convert to a pedestrian only river crossing.  Here is a view approaching the bridge

And here is a shot from the pedestrian bridge looking at the pier that we tied to last week - the approach walkway and ramp are underwater account of the rise of the river from the rains of the last week (remember our time in the Little Tennessee?)

And here is the pedestrian bridge

And surprise  - surprise, it is being used as a segment of the Ironman Route. And here is one of the leaders again - note the motorcycle following and filming him.

And the view of the Hunter Art museum

And the entrance to the museum

This is in the old Hunter Mansion segment of the museum

And  Lookout Mountain is in the lower portion of the window.

The old Hunter Mansion

The United Methodist Church and spire

 Three guesses as to the name of this building.

Yup that's right - the Dome Building

Notice the river "walk" is now more like a river splash walk.

And finally. hope you can see the huge number of bikes in the paddock - one for each participant.

Visited with the folks John and Sue behind us on the dock until after dark.
So it is now time to say ............

Good night and May God Bless

Day 133 Terrace View Marina to Sale Creek Saturday September 29, 2018

Day 133 Terrace View Marina to Sale Creek Saturday September 29, 2018

The promise of nice day at sunset last night proved to be correct. There was some low hanging clouds in the morning as it turns out was likely  caused by the cooling towers of the nearby nuclear plant. Temperatures were low 60s to upper 70s

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The day was a wonderfully pleasant day for travel. The low clouds seem to be from the nearby nuclear plant. We headed out around 8:00 and traveled about 50 miles and passed through the Watts Bar Lock.

We were the first boat of the day and drove right on in. Even had the lock master come out and engage in a fun conversation.

The river was more attractive today than yesterday.

This jet con trail seemed to slice the sky in two.

In the distance you can see the Mountain range to the north of Chattanooga - the south end is Signal Mountain that is opposite Lookout Mountain.

For my "I Spy" friends what do you see that we haven't seen in a long time?

Yup - we haven't seen a sailboat out and actually sailing since the great lakes.

We traveled the 50 miles rather quickly as the rain of the last several days provided a nice current of up to 2 mph - thus we were at our anchorage early afternoon. We enjoyed watching the last of week 3 NFL games. A light breeze gave us a great comfortable afternoon.


And I had a chance to get the drone up for a look around

 The sunset was very nice.

 And so it is time to say ....................................

Good Night and May God Bless

Day 132 Ft Loudon Marina to Terrace View Marina Friday September 28, 2018

Day 132 Ft Loudon Marina to Terrace View Marina Friday September 28, 2018

The rain stopped overnight. The clouds hung on until mid afternoon. Promise of nice day tomorrow.

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We left Fort Loudon Marina around 0800. The Fort Loudon lock was ready for us when we arrived a few minutes later.

A few miles down the river we passed Loudon. It seems to call you to stop but there is no dock facilities for a boat of any size - on we go.

This is the Whitehall Inn. Beautiful grounds. The apparent church building had me stumped as there is little to no settlement near by.

 Couldn't resist another shot of the T in the lawn.

We traveled the 55 miles to the Terrace View Marina quite smartly - it is wonderful to be going with the 1.5 knot current. When you are going 8.5 knots through the water, the current is a 3 knot differential by direction you travel - that's a lot over 4 hours.

Some photos of the marina. The restaurant/pub was open as it was Friday night - nice to walk up and have a meal.

As you can see the sun has set so it is time to say ............................

Good Night and May God Bless