Well, I start tonight's blog with very mixed emotions. We have been on the Ten/Tom River for several days and have greatly enjoyed this river system. We spent last night in Marina Cove which is a little marina in Carrollton, Alabama. We took the courtesy van and went to a local restaurant named "Down Yonder". I ate some delicious catfish. This is very rural country and we had to drive 10 miles just to get to a small grocery store. We left Marina Cove this morning at 6:00, passed through two locks and arrived in Demopolis Alabama around 5:30 today. We made 91 miles today. Not a lot of places to anchor in this part of the river system. As we rounded a curve in the Ten Tom we came upon snow white cliffs. I don't know if this is lime stone or what. The shore line was green woods and dirt banks just before hitting this shore line. It really is amazing.

This picture shows the trees and dirt bank before entering the white rock substance. We saw a couple of places like this. I think this area was being mined as there was a lot of equipment and a place for barges to load a substance on them.

This part of the river was called the "Blue River" and I think that was because the rock shore was blue. Very pretty shoreline.

This is a picture of the Tenn Tom. It is quite rural and very pretty. Today, Saturday, I saw more bass boats than I've ever seen before. These people in this area love to fish and go fast.

This is just another picture of the Tenn Tom. Great kayaking country and it looks like it would be great to fly fish in.

When we left Smithville, Mississippi we had many, many May Pops or May Flies on our boat. I washed them off and this morning in Marina Cove the boat was covered again. There are just thousands of these critters flying around.

I started by saying I had mixed emotions tonight. We are going to rent a car Monday, unload the boat, have it stored in a dry storage and go home for the rest of this year or until after hurricane season. So I guess this will be my last blog until I return later in the year. However I am looking forward to seeing my family and doing some fishing back in NC. The kids have the truck at Cape Lookout and I understand the fish are biting so I don't think I'll have too much withdrawal until I can get back and continue this Great Loop experience.

See you in late November or just after Christmas.

Carl