Animal Food

After our late evening around the campfire, we didn’t get up very early.  About 8:30 a.m. we backed off the peninsula at the waterfall.  It was just a couple more miles of westerly travel before we turned south onto the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.  The fall colors are enjoyably different for us since we are later than usual, but left us wishing the sun was out more to make them more spectacular.  Most boaters seem to complain about the boring, fairly straight ditch which is the divide cut, but I enjoy being closer to the banks to see things.  Today’s sightings included a flock of turkeys and a skinny, sickly looking wolf.  The wolf made me wish I had kept the pumpkin innards to feed it, although I guess they are not vegetarians.

Just an example of the wondrous beauty of fall

We had a trawler named “Lady Jane” overtake us with a white “looper flag” asking our suggestion for today’s destination since they noticed our gold “looper flag”.  We told them of our normal anchorage in Bay Springs, leaving the Tenn-Tom locking to commence tomorrow.  They entered a cove downstream from our normal spot, which we mentioned we might try this time.  When we entered that cove we found three boats already anchored in there and no water shallow enough to join them comfortably.  So once again we backtracked to another cove to enjoy all to ourselves.

The view from tonight's anchorage

We did get the dinghy down to take the trash over to the Cotton Springs park.  Linda tried some fishing along the way for the first time on this trip, but without any luck on the short attempt.  Once back aboard “The Second Noelle” we decided to give her a lake water bath.