The Great Loop

This web site is an attempt to provide a quick and easy way for our family and freinds to keep up with us on "The Loop"

The Great Loop is a 6000 mile jouney down the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee Waterway to Mobile, Alabama. From there around the coast of Florida via Key West with a side trip to the Bahamas. Back to the coast of Florida we head up the east coast to the Chesapeake Bay. From the Chesapeake we continue up the east coast through New York Harbour, up the Hudon River, and across the Erie Canal. Through a series of canals we go across Lake Ontario into Canada. We will spend a month in Canada. Back to the US, we will cross Lake Michigan to Chicago. Following the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Cumberland Rivers back to Tennesse.


LOOP CLOSED: 8/12/09: 310 days, 6170 miles, 107 locks, 3 countries, 16 states, 85 different marinas, 10,050 gallons of diesel fuel, thousands of photos, countless new friends, and priceless memories...

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Chattanooga

A friendly Alabama neighbor came to bid us farewell.......he was just strolling the docks looking for something good to eat.......... As we pass the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant....never in operation.........
Ferry waiting for a couple of cars to help across........................

As you can see we are in the hills of Tennessee now.....guess it is in my blood.....but it is oh so pretty.............just look at a few of these pics where we live..........................
This is the stage from the Chattanooga Riverfront...................they store it down river for the events.......Hales Bar.......A power plant once upon a time...................
Floating condos.......we have been seeing these all over...................
More of the fab photos of the rock formations and the mountains............awesome.......




Great house on the bluff...........wonder who lives here????





The tour boat from the Aquarium in Chattanooga came zooming down the waterway...............

Guess he thought he needed to slow down for us...............whoa..............I would have hated to have been a passenger on that stop....................

New kind of daymarker, port or starboard????Here we are.....only one lock today....and about 110 miles to Chattanooga.........Great riverfront here.....





Rain, rain, and more rain.... bridges above us makes for a little traffic noise...............but we will enjoy the city for a couple of days before heading north..............
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