Day # 67 (Monday): 38 miles (1737 total miles)
Locks: 0 (12 total locks)
Port #30: New Johnsonville, TN
Marina: Pebble Isle Marina
At sunrise, the skies cleared and the wind subsided making for a better day for travel. We pulled anchor and headed OB for our next destination, Pebble Isle Marina in New Johnsonville, TN. Pebble Isle was one of our favorite stops during our 2014 Loop. It is run by some of the friendliest, most conscientious folks we've run into on the Loop. Besides that they have the best catfish and hushpuppies I’ve ever had.
On the way we passed the Bridge to Nowhere closely followed by the old abandoned granary. Many structures of a civilization that used to reside in the area lay on the bottom of the Kentucky Lake. Construction of the dam began in 1938. It was completed in 1944 and the land alongside the Tennessee River began to flood and eventually became Kentucky Lake. The old Louiseville-Nashville RR Bridge was one of those structures as was the granary that resided just down the road.
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| Ft.Heiman anchorage is behind this bluff. It looked like a great place to drop the hook. |
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| Some nice homes began to appear on the shoreline here and there. |
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| The Old Louisville-Nashville RR Bridge...the Bridge to Nowhere. |
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| The abandoned granary. |
OB came into Pebble Isle amongst a dozen other Looper boats. Pebble Isle is currently in its off season and the restaurant is only open on the weekends. The management told me if I could gather enough folks, they’d call the cook in and serve us dinner. Loopers love to eat out and gathering 14 people was easy. That night we enjoyed a wonderful catfish feast.
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| OB's home amid the gathering of Loopers. |
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| One big happy family awaiting the catfish feast. |
Todd/Paula Sue:
ReplyDeleteTodd, just curious, do you have "Flow Scan" meters on you engines to keep tract of fuel burn rates?
MK
No...he just calculates the average he has burned. It seems to be pretty dead on when we go to the pump. He tells me what he thinks each side will take. I call out the numbers on the pump as we get closer to his estimate and he's usually within 5 gallons of that estimate.
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