Today was a much better day for travel. There was no forecast for heavy rain, but we did go through a couple of mist showers – just enough to give the boat a good rinse and require wiping down of the windows. The shoreline is a combination of woods, rock cliffs and the occasional house. There are a number of small marinas, generally for smaller boats, along this stretch of the river and a few islands you could anchor behind if you so desired. Clifton is one of the marinas that have space for a few larger boats and a nice dock for transients. There were two other current Loopers and one gold Looper (that is someone who has completed their Loop) on the dock with us overnight. We walked into Clifton, a small town with a well kept downtown area and home of T. S. Stribling, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. Some of the sidewalks in town are made of large stones that were the first sidewalks in Clifton.
Miles: 67.1 Bridges: 4 Locks: 0
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cormorants move out of the channel to get out of the way of our
approaching boat |
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| cypress trees at the end of an island |
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| the beautiful shoreline continues |
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Lady Finger Bluff - legend has it that in pioneer days,
a lady chose to leap to her death from this bluff
rather than be caught by attacking Indians |
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| the rocky shorline of the Tennessee River |
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| we never get tired of looking at the beautiful shoreline |
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there are many smaller mainas along this section of the river -
this one happens to have the best name and the most unique sign |
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