5.27.10

Here are some of the sights and sounds of the Glen last evening. I had to cut part of the video…the music they were playing was XXXX rated….If they play that when there are families camping or touring the State Park….I can understand why the Ranger running the place wants to stop boats from coming in. It only takes a few to ruin it for everyone. This is one of the few places you can go in a boat and have a place to swim or socialize in the water….the big gators don't seem to bother with this end of the spring run….at least during the day.

I think Jim counted 44 boats on this swing through.

This morning everything was peaceful again.

I made coffee early, we took a cup with us when we took Raisin ashore. Once back aboard we stowed everything for travel and hauled the anchor. George is taking his little boat to town and visiting his daughter for the weekend. He volunteered to take Jim to the store for supplies. Great!!!  another week or two on the water.

The sun was just coming up as we neared the lake.

We passed two big houseboats headed for the Glen….and numerous cruisers with their generators and dingys stowed on deck. It will be a wild weekend.

We’ll be back on Tuesday when things quiet down. Tonight’s anchorage is behind Lungun Island, marker G3. The sun is hot…just a slight breeze. We’re going ashore and cook hotdogs over a campfire.

So far, it is peaceful and quiet. Lots of boat running the river but no one camping on the island yet.

5.26.10

Great night at anchor at the Seven Sister’s Islands. We had a short rain storm…just long enough to put up one of the vinyl side curtains and take it down again…

We decided to head straight to Silver Glen Springs. Try to get down the lake before it gets too bad….it was pretty bouncy…wind was from the wrong direction for the springs but we managed. We were watching a boat in the distance that was headed to the same place and thought they were getting a real nice smooth ride.  When we talked to them later they said the same thing about us…so I guess we were both being bumped around a bit.

Boats are starting to come in for the weekend.

Weekends are busy..but holiday weekends pack the place. There are already over 30 boats here.

This dog was enjoying his trip….I think he’s watching all the fish swim under the boat. The water is so clear you can see them swimming past is big schools.

We passed this Nimble Nomad on the river a couple of days ago. What a nice boat….made us think of Larry & Diane, they used to have one and we cruised the Tenn- Tom Waterway and the Black Warrior river, Grand lake, OK and the St Johns River and the ICW to Key Biscayne with them. Sure miss their company out here.

We enjoyed dinking around and looking at all the boats….then went back to ours…took a quick dip to cool off, then supper and a movie.

5.25.10

The Sterling Lady III got off to an early start. This is the sunrise that greeted us.

We were not far behind. Finished topping off the water tank and headed over  to Corkey Bell’s dock and a hike to the grocery store. Hot wings from Corkey’s for lunch.

Most of the markers have Osprey nests on them. One of the pair flew away…probably to distract us….but I got some pictures as we passed slowly by.

Can you see the little ones?

How about in this one?

She was talking to us all they way by.

 

Here is the mate coming in for a landing. We’ll do a slow cruise and anchor in The Seven Sister’s Islands. Just S of marker R 31 we found a nice spot that should give us a good breeze most of the night.