We’re at Marina Cove Marina, which is near nuthin’, Alabama. Just ain’t nuthin’ here except the really small marina (that picture is the whole marina and the other is the “marina office”. No cell phone service anywhere all day on the water and none here. Oh well, it’s only $34 to stay overnight.

However, you can go see the Bevill lock, a fake southern mansion museum, and a restored steam powered sternwheeler riverboat by walking up the road a mile or two, which we did. We did not see one car on the road the whole time. It’s kind of fun strolling along the yellow stripes in the middle of the road.

The faux mansion is just an honorarium for Tom Bevill, a US congressman whom got the money for the lock, the museum (which displays his trophies and a few random other things about the Ten-Tom) plus the decommissioned and restored sternwheeler stump and snag puller boat The Montgomery. The Montgomery was really worth seeing. It was totally restored (your US tax dollars at work!) and open so you could walk through it and see the two huge steam boilers (84 tons each) and all of the machinery necessary to run the boat. John S. would have loved it. It also had the original working steam whistle, which you can blow by stepping on the whistle pedal in the pilot house. Kathy didn’t do that, but you can bet I did. WOW! I wish I had one of those on Nonchalance!