SO we’re not going to Demopolis for a while after all! We are in Columbus, MS and we found out when we got here that everybody else had the same idea as us about staying in Demopolis, plus a lot of boaters insurance will not let them get to salt water before late November, so they're rafting them 4 deep at Demopolis. "Rafting" is when they tie boats to the dock and then tie more boats up to the sides of those boats. Luckily, we got a very nice 70 ft. slip at a good price with electric, water, internet, etc. and got an Enterprise rental car for a week. In addition, the friends we were cruising with before (the Loose Stones) said they really liked Columbus, so this may be much better than Demopolis and we’ll still be on our Cruise Plan after we pass Demopolis and Coffeeville, arriving at Mobile sometime around Nov. 25th. As an eerie coincidence, here we are in Columbus and a full scale operating replica of Columbus’ ship, The Nina, is docked here too. They’re passing through on their way to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Seeing what it’s like, I can’t imagine going across the Atlantic with no charts in that boat in 1492, but they did.
We had an easy day cruising today. For the one lock that we went through, we called ahead on VHF a mile before we got there and they were open and waiting for us when we arrived.
The Ten-Tom canal was dug through the Tombigbee river in this area and the Army Corps of Engineers used the flatlands and swamps created by the river and straightened it out by digging the canal straight through the area instead of following the many oxbows of the original river. See the picture of the chart page. It’s like that for miles and miles. This also created many beautiful bays and cutoffs from the main channel like the one pictured. It’s the old river channel that was bypassed but is still connected to the Ten-Tom canal. In most places where they cut off an oxbow, they also filled in one of the ends so there is no flow through the old bend, just a large river bend with only one end connected to the canal system. Looks like excellent fishing and great places to build a house with a great dock, but then you’ve gotta’ live in Backwaters, Mississippi……. and it’s so hard to get a good brie here………
We had an easy day cruising today. For the one lock that we went through, we called ahead on VHF a mile before we got there and they were open and waiting for us when we arrived.
The Ten-Tom canal was dug through the Tombigbee river in this area and the Army Corps of Engineers used the flatlands and swamps created by the river and straightened it out by digging the canal straight through the area instead of following the many oxbows of the original river. See the picture of the chart page. It’s like that for miles and miles. This also created many beautiful bays and cutoffs from the main channel like the one pictured. It’s the old river channel that was bypassed but is still connected to the Ten-Tom canal. In most places where they cut off an oxbow, they also filled in one of the ends so there is no flow through the old bend, just a large river bend with only one end connected to the canal system. Looks like excellent fishing and great places to build a house with a great dock, but then you’ve gotta’ live in Backwaters, Mississippi……. and it’s so hard to get a good brie here………
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