Only 48 miles today and then we are staying at an anchorage tonight.  The river has narrowed down some and it is a little more windy (windy like wind up the watch, not windy like the wind blew my hat off 🙂 ).  We saw a tow ferry at one spot

Dirt road ferry

It was literally in the middle of no where.  Only dirt roads.  I bet his job is pretty boring, waiting for cars to come so he can ferry them across.  I wonder what he charges?  I suppose if you are in the middle of nothing, what ever he charges is worth the price.

Pretty slow day today….saw a bridge

Blue bridge

another nice view of the Tennessee 

I did see some ripples in the water at one spot, which usually means some kind of underwater obstruction, so I steered the boat around the ripples.  As I looked overboard to see what it was, it looked like a big oil slick on the bottom of the river, about the size of our boat (and no!  It wasn’t a shadow this time cause Gary saw it too 😛 ).  He was in back and noticed the disturbance in the water.  Again…..weird.

We made it to our anchorage pretty early, like about 1:00.  The cat was all, is it time to eat mom?

Got my favorite toy

So after we fed the cat, we enjoyed the view from the anchorage and had a few brews

Because we were anchoring out, Gary slept in the watch berth, and as I have complete faith in my anchor and because there were no storms, I was able to sleep in our bed.  Around midnight though I did hear a roar.  I thought it might be a tug so I got up to check it out.  It was just the trains across the river going by but as I was heading down to bed I saw this green light.  A fishing boat had put green rope lighting on the side of its hull and they were fishing with a red lighted bobber.  Cool!  I’ve never seen that before, of course I’m not usually up this late either.  Oh well.  Back to bed, daylight will come soon enough.  Nighty night!