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With Look Out Mountain in our sights, we began to get serious about the heat and forecast for warmer days ahead….so decided to go all the way to Little Cedar Mountain…basically doing three days of cruising in one. We knew we’d change time zones…a…

Did manage to snap those photos of the Delta Queen that we missed taking on our stay in Chattanooga. We understand she is docked permanently as a hotel and restaurant.  Floyd was thinking with all that boat traffic, this would be a good time to stay…

Our worry today was HEAT…and getting through Chattanooga. Their BIG River Bend  Festival is this week and we knew activities would be happening on the river…we also knew there would be increased boat traffic in the area. True, True and true…but …

We love anchoring out…but are always greeted the morning after by BUGS!!! Dead ones usually…but they are everywhere…and soooooo disgusting. Oh, and the spiders and their webs!!! Boat life can sometimes challenge us squeamish ones…thank goodn…

Sometimes our anchorage spots have cute names and sometimes they don't. This one is known as 498.1…the mile marker at the entrance. We liked this one…swimming was good and refreshing…though the guidebook said there were no structures…wond…

We’ve gone days without seeing, hearing or passing any boats on the river…and today we were swamped by three power boats (why don’t they slow down as a courtesy?? We do!!!!) and this barge. Three empties and one full…not a very big load compared to…

Just when we thought we were far enough from Knoxville to escape the orangeness…look at this!!! What was he thinking??? not exactly blending in to the landscape!!!! I am amazed at the creativity though…

Just in case you thought all the water around here was deep…this is obviously a shallow spot. Who knows how long that flag has been there…we saw it on the way up and it doesn’t seem to have been disturbed. Skinny water over there…

What a disappointment Blue Springs Marina…not only was it one of those kind of run down, character type marinas…the restaurant was only opened on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday…so there we were 25 feet from the place on Wednesday…cooking!!!! not …

About the only excitment we had today were a few hitchhikers…butterflies everywhere…big, little, black, yellow…seemed like we always had one riding somewhere…and this is the only one I managed to catch on camera….but isn’t he (or she) somethi…