To the Banshee Creek Anchorage

The cruise to Banshee Creek was long and uneventful. The Tombigbee is a big ditch in this area with few houses and businesses. We saw a couple of young eagles diving for fish (dinner) –awesome. We are getting good at passing the barges and in the lock we got a lecture from the lockmaster. We were locking through with the marauders and knew they were not good at passing without rocking us so we graciously told them to go out of the lock before us. They graciously accepted. The lockmaster did not like this and when they passed us in the lock he told us in no uncertain terms to not let that happen again—go out as you came in and handle any wake issues in other ways. We said we were sorry and won’t do it again. We made our way down to Banshee Creek—the only good anchorage between Demopolis and Bobby’s Fish Camp. We are the first one to make it there but are assured others will use this creek for overnight. We back into the creek which is about 30 ft. wide and put out a front and rear anchor. Then arrives a boat we have not seen before—they are making the fast ride down the Tombigbee. They are the Pegasus out of Pauls Valley, OK—a long way from home. They have her Dad with them and he is the experienced captain. Then came the 2 boats traveling together—Dream II and Misty Lynn. They scrounge in and we fill up the small creek. Then came the SAILBOAT! Right at dusk the sailboat comes around the entrance and everyone gasped. There is no place for him and he doesn’t even have reverse. I believe he found a place across the channel but we were so embedded in the creek that I don’t know. Notes: We have no wi-fi or cell service so we watched the Pat Summit story. I have had the 3 CD pack for years and never watched. It was really good and we enjoyed it immensely. Bittersweet is the realization that within a couple of years her life will be interrupted with the dementia and Alzheimer’s diagnosis.