Welcome to the blog of Fred and Julaine as we chronicle our adventures traveling on Boreas, our Carver 405.


Friday, September 30, 2011

Day 83 – Joe Wheeler State Park to Ditto Landing, Huntsville, AL - September 27, 2011

Today we traveled most of the length of Lake Wheeler (also called the Joe Wheeler Reservoir) – the portion of the Tennessee River between Joe Wheeler Lock and Dam and the Guntersville Lock and Dam.

Some stretches of the river today were quite industrial, but we had a beautiful stretch through the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge where the water is deep from bank to bank and there are no buoys, towns or industry.  As we begin to approach Huntsville, we begin to see the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau that begins in eastern Kentucky and extends southwest through eastern Tennessee into northern Alabana.

            Miles: 60.7      Bridges: 4        Locks: 0

beginning to see hills in the distance

a neat arch in the rock wall (you can see the sun shining through)

beautiful rock bluffs

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