Green Turtle Marina to Pebble Isle Marina

Although staying a day longer than we wanted to at Green Turtle Marina, we accomplished several things on Tuesday. We fixed our windshield canvas, to which we give a  huge shout out thanks to Mark Sunderman of Creative Canvas & Covers for a great job and same day service. In addition to having our windshield repaired on Tuesday, Tom was able to be groomed  at the local beauty salon in Eddyville, KY!

Tom getting a new hairdo!

Today, we bid farewell to Green Turtle Marina and also to the crew of Kumbaya.  While they also had plans to depart today,  bad luck strikes again.  While on a shopping errand yesterday, the captain's wife broke her ankle and her tibia. She is now in a hospital in Paducah, KY. Luckily no surgery, but will be in a non weight bearing mid thigh cast for 8 weeks. We thank our lucky stars, that so far, we have had only minor issues.

Leaving Green Turtle Bay Marina

Today, we leave around 9 am.  It is drizzling with a cool breeze;  the new windshield is immediately appreciated.  It is our first day of travel without the sunny skies which have spoiled us since our departure. Even the dogs shiver sitting on the bridge.

Buster and Bailey

We leave Lake Barkley, cross through the Barkley Canal, and enter Kentucky Lake.  Kentucky Lake is the last of nine mainstream lakes on the Tennessee River which  forms at Knoxville, TN with the junction of the Holston and French Rivers.  The Tennessee River flows south and southwest to its confluence with the Ohio River at Paducah, KY.  The Kentucky Lake portion of the Tennessee River is the largest, most developed and most popular of the TVA lake system.  Scattered on its shoreline are five state parks and over 80 resorts and marinas. We will  navigate through the Kentucky Lake/Tennessee River until it meets the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway.

Abandoned  farm materials elevator for a now abandoned railway. Built in 1918.  Left as a marker by the TVA. Appears to be in the middle of nowhere in the Kentucky Lake.

The abandoned train rail.

We travel approximately 80 miles and have arrived at Pebble Isle Marina for the night. It is still raining. The temperature seems to have fallen and the winds have grown stronger.  We will put up the rest of our canvas on the bridge to prepare for another cool wet morning tomorrow.  Although the weather could have been better, today was a good day.  Minimal marine traffic, deep debris free water, and no locks!  Tomorrow will be a different tale.  Until then....