Green Turtle Bay Marina and Resort was a great place to relax and enjoy the community of boaters and the interesting town of Grand Rivers.The resort and the town were decked up with 'mums' and pumpkins and the biggest gourds we'd ever seen nicely arranged on and around bales of straw. Very colourful.This town is a popular destination for boaters as well as tour buses. The biggest attractions being Patti's settlement- [restaurant, shops and history.] and the theater in the heart of the town. This place really hums in the summer with 2 beautiful lakes formed by a dam on the Tennessee River and another on the Cumberland River. The land between the 2 lakes is parkland..We were on the dock that looked after transient boaters. Some were loopers like us ,some were on their way to Florida, others were 'River Rats'[they loved exploring the american rivers]. Everybody had a story. Twice we gathered on the gazebo for a happy hour to share our tales and glean advice from other's experiences. Our boat neighbour for the week was Kevin on the 'Irish Rover'. He hailed from Minnesota .Bill and he shared a lot of stories.Sat. eve at sunset Kevin surprised us with his music on the bagpipes. He finished with 'Amazing Grace'.Thank you ,Kevin.
We walked to town on Sunday and took in a sermon on forgiveness in a local church. Friends in our marina were loaned a car . They invited us to go with them to Paducah, [a city we had gone by on the Ohio River the week before.] to do some shopping. This was about half an hour drive.-by boat it was about 3 days plus a lot of scenery. We were fascinated by the murals on the sea wall that told the history of the area.After eating out at a great eatery we headed back to our boats.They were fellow Christians . It was special sharing with them. Thanks Dave and Peg Miller. We enjoyed sunny warm weather the whole week. at GTB.
Thursday we headed down Kentucky lake[Tennessee River]. It rained off and on and was cooler.It was a quiet trip to a lovely anchorage in a little bay called Fort Heinan cove. We shared it with a few little fishing boats that came in and out of this bay. No other pleasure crafts joined us.The next morning we travelled on to Pebble Isle marina near New Johnsonville.The autumn colours and the rolling hills were ever changing with the clouds and sun. I guess we are moving south with the changing season. Yesterday we walked through Old Johnsonville national park. One of the civil war battles was fought there. And the 'Old' town was moved when the Kentucky lake was formed in the 1940's
The river is low so a few boats that came here today needed Boat US to help them through the mud, so they could come into this marina.
looking forward to Sunday.We'll upload photos soon. reception has been up and down all day. We thought we had loaded pictures but failed..'til later.
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