Sunny Days: The Tennessee River

We didn’t really take our time and savor this last leg of the Loop but we did notice some things we hadn’t noticed before. There are plentiful terrific anchorages up and down the TN that we did not see anywhere else on our travels. The shore is dotted with beautiful homes, fish camps and retirement type trailers. People boating these water should not take these for granted as well as the clean, wide waterway—we had no trouble passing the occasional barge at all. Radio stations were a hoot -- there is nothing like small town radio. An Oldies station (the Frog) out of Paris, Tn. stayed with us on the upper end and had great music (Horse with No Name, Ramblin Man) plus funeral home reports (one man was to be buried in Republican Cemetery—wonder if there is a Democrat Cemetery?) In the lower end we had a Savannah, TN country station (The Worm) that we enjoyed -- it reported the menu for the Hickory Pit Restaurant (side dishes included sliced cucumbers and jello). We pulled through the cut between Lake Barkley (Cumberland River) and Kentucky Lake (TN River) mid-day on Friday afternoon and headed for Kenlake anchorage. Saturday-on to Pebble Isle Marina where we could bring in the Vols football game against South Carolina (yoo-hoo we pulled it out-- ugly). Tammi and Randy are the owners of Pebble Isle Marina and have made this a “must stop”. Very nice people in a protected marina but we are on a mission so we are up early and headed out to try to get half way (Swallow Bluff anchorage) to Grand Harbor where we cross our wake. We already have the courtesy car reserved at Grand Harbor to go to the steakhouse Freddy T’s to celebrate our Loop Monday night.