Day 191 … Sat, Oct 28, 2017 … 45 miles; 5 hours & 1 Lock
Foscue Creek, Demopolis, AL to Old Lock #2, Black Warrior River, AL
The rain didn’t let up until close to 8:30 am to take Cally to shore. By then we knew, from fellow Loopers, 6 boats locked thru around 7:30-8:00 am. That meant 6 boats ahead of us for the slim pickins’ of places to anchor.
A call to the lock master at 9; we were told it would be at least an hour wait. By 10am, he gave us the green light to come on over. We locked alone. We pulled up the anchor and moved over to the lock (just outside the creek we were on last night); we had the gates open and the green light to enter!!
Not sure when the other 4 boats we know were moving in our direction are going thru.
This part of the river isn’t exciting, it pretty much looks the same around every bend. We passed 3 tows today; 1 coming towards us and 2 going in our direction that we overtook.
As we rounded the bend to the spot Rip picked for the night … we see 2 sailboats rafted together. There was still room for us!! A third sailboat joined the other 2 for the night.
The anchorage is right on the river, but out of the way of river traffic and right across the river from a boat ramp and park for taking Cally to shore.
The park is large with lots of nice green grass for Cally to run. And, a trash can for me!
There isn’t anything exciting about this spot … it’s just a place to stop for the night. This stretch from Demopolis (last night; Fri) until Mobile Bay (probably Wed night) only has one “marina”, Bobby’s Fish Camp. And the word marina is a stretch. Well, that is where hope to be tomorrow night. We shall see. It isn’t a big place, holding 4-6 boats unless you raft off more); we may have to anchor out anyway, if it is full. But, we;d like to try the Catfish!
Good night from the Black Warrior Tombigbee River.
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