It was another peaceful anchorage overnight. Last evening we kind of wondered when the wind picked up for a little while, of course in the direction straight into the anchorage. Just enough to keep the bugs away and the temperature down though. We lifted anchor out of there just before 6:30 this morning. A virtually uneventful day. No locks. Just the fairly open water of Wheeler Lake with a southeast wind making it a little choppy in places. Talking to the Decatur, Alabama bridge tender and watching the turtles were about all of today's traveling activities. Speaking of Alabama though, I think I forgot to mention that we arrived back in Alabama about a half hour into our trip yesterday, leaving Mississippi behind until the fall again.
Fifty seven miles and just over nine hours later, we were pulled in to dock at Ditto Landing where Linda promised Ray a lasagne dinner since we would be plugged into shore power for the first time since Sunday morning. Once the boat was cleaned up and dinner was in the oven, we took a walk around the campground here, trying to stay in the shade. Amazing how much different the wind is when you are on the water. We got back to the boat just in time to take dinner out and let it rest. Right about that time we saw a tow out in the river coming close to shore, then it backed up and things were said over the intercom. Linda's curiosity finally got the better of Ray and convinced him to walk over to the bike path to check it out. Come to find out it was a U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender boat anchoring/tying to shore for the night presumably. We waved to them, checked out their apparatuses, and headed back to the boat for that dinner Ray was waiting for.
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