Gainesville,AL

Day 86, October 26th, 2009
From Conchrane Cut we moved on to another oxbow down the waterway, passing through another few locks on route. We noted that the scenery seemed to be changing somewhat - more and more cypress swamps, more grasses, lots of broken up lilly pads in the water along with the dead wood. In the afternoon was pass from Mississippi to Alabama. Neither of us have ever been in Mississippi or Alabama before. We get a kick out of the southern drawl. Sometimes when we speak to the lockmasters we really haven't a clue what he replies!! Often have to ask him to repeat.

We arrived at the anchorage quite early, shortly after 1:00 we were anchored and comfortable.
Neither of us felt very ambitious though so decided to have a quiet afternoon on the boat. Around 4:00 another catamaran arrived, Blue Heron, and they told us they had been travelling with Twice 's Nice for the last two days but they had had to stop at Pirate's Cove Marina, further up stream, because they were worried about the vibration again. Needless to say we were so sorry to hear this. We were able to get Paul and Sue on the cell phone, only to hear the mechanic had been able to tighten it up, Sue had done her laundry while he was doing his thing and they had done a few miles afterwards and had anchored at Cochrane Cut. Again we promised to meet up in Demopolis. Blue Heron was glad to hear they were okay.