The river has his own special look first early in the morning.
As we had upstream we are pushing against a team to 3 miles an hour current.
I can't think of a better way to spend Father's Day morning then piloting a great big boat, all that's missing was our kids.
The riverbank here was nothing but sand would be a great place for a quarry.
We sure wish our beach sand along the river at home was white sand like here.
Unfortunately unless you come by boat this beach has no road access which I guess could also be good.
This area of the River seems to have very little development. This is the first power plant we have seen.
The waters at a very high level, not only is the color brown, but the water is all the way up to the trees.
Not a lot of topsoil, only sand.
Viv likes to pilot from the flybridge.
Some sections of the river are really straight
First boat launch we've seen.
This overlook the scene it's better days.
Our first of 13 dams to lock through. This one is in Coffeeville Alabama at mile 116.6.
Viv has us all tied off and secure.
These Bollards are nice, the ropes stay connected even as we pull from above (they are 4 foot lower the the rail on the boat.
We are on the way up.
We are all the way up.
The view of the countryside always looks better above the lock. Now the river is a lake!
Just cruising!
Starting to see some wildlife.
As we close out day number two we anchor on the inside behind the Green Channel marker. Fortunately there's not a lot of commercial traffic. We confirmed with this towboat that we were out of the way. He said we were good to go.
Day two was a success.
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