Thanksgiving day! WE started out in Demopolis, AL and are now anchored out in the wilds of the Black Warrior river 145 river miles north of Mobile AL. Kathy bought a 9 lb. turkey and cooked a full Thanksgiving dinner for us with turkey, mashed potatoes, outside dressing,. What is not shown in the picture is that she also made 2 pies for desert…a chocolate mousse pie (my favorite) and a pumpkin pie. Yum……! We’re thankful for our health, our love, our families and our friends. Now if God could also just guide the misguided people in many parts of this world, it’d help a lot.

We’re anchored in Bashi Creek which runs into the Black Warrior river. It’s large enough and deep enough to get in but we needed to stretch ourselves between bow and stern anchors so we wouldn’t drift over and run aground on the sides of the creek at night. There are very few places like this where you can get out of the navigation channel of the river to anchor, and exactly zero marinas anywhere near here. Luckily, there are also very few boats so we got in alone tonight. There were 2 boats anchored with us 2 nights ago at Sumter Landing. Like Sumter Landing, there is a small boat ramp at the creek entrance so it’s easy to land our dinghy to take Daisy and there’s a little park where people can fish and camp here (but there’s nobody doing that). From the bluff at the little park you can see up the Black Warrior river for a couple miles. As you can see, it’s a very large, wide river and easy to navigate. It probably travels2 river miles for evertyy mile we go South because of all of the oxbows and curves in the river, but that makes it pretty. I would say we saw about 4 or 5 boats all day after we left the Demopolis lock. There was one barge towboat that we passed, but no other commercial traffic. Just us and the river.

Tomorrow we’ll go through the last lock before salt water. No more locks until after New York City on the Hudson river! We’ll be in Mobile on Saturday.