Day 73 & 74 – Duncan Bay to Pebble Isle Marina, New Johnsonville, KY - September 17-18, 2011

We continued south in Kentucky Lake today.  The shoreline is beautiful with rock outcroppings, small beaches and splendid trees.  There are of course no houses along the shore in the Land Between the Lakes area and very few houses everywhere else.  Occasionally we see homes high on the bluff overlooking the lake and sometimes groups of 5 or 6 houses along the shore, but mostly we see lots of people enjoying boating and fishing on this spectacular lake.

We are going to spend the next two nights at Pebble Isle Marina.  The have a very good price on diesel and they have a courtesy car for transient boaters to use – and best of all a Walmart Supercenter just ten miles away.  We have our shopping list ready and we are stocking up on things that are hard to find (or hard to carry) when you are relying on a local grocery store within walking distance.

             Miles: 63.3      Bridges: 2        Locks: 0

the rocky shore of Kentucky Lake

the beautiful shoreline of Kentucky Lake

more of the beautiful shoreline

these trees are growing on an island where Richland Creek flows
into Kentucky Lake - the island is just underwater! 

Pilot Knob rises over 200 feet above the river.  It served as a landmark for
early steamboat pilots.  It was also the site of a very unusual battle during the
Civil War fought in late October of 1864 by Confederate General Nathan
Bedford Forest - it was the only time in military history a cavalry force
defeated a naval force.