#7 August 27th - 30th

August 27th after topping off our fuel and saying Goodbye to our friends we headed out to explore the Cumberland River on our way to Nashville. The first night we traveled up the Little River to an anchorage off the Lake Barkley State Park. It was 2 and a half miles off the Main river. Very quiet and secluded behind an Island. We swam to get cool but found the water to be extremely warm.  Hardly worth the effort!  No pictures.
August 29th we traveled up the river to Clarksville TN's new marina pictured above.  An amazing fact about all these marinas we have visited.  Virtually ALL of the structures and docks are built to float. As much as 30 feet when the river decides to rise to such levels.  Yes, even the Marina office at the extreme left of the picture floats.

Exceptional campground maintained by the Corps of Engineers along this portion of river. 

Extends about a mile.  Playgrounds, picnic areas, spacious campsites. They are filling up for the Labor Day Weekend.

Notice the tree caught by the bouy?  We see a lot of this on these rivers. Must keep a vigilant eye.

Most of the time this is what we see. Yes, sometimes it gets little boring but not for long. There are many water birds, a few wrecked boats along the shore, fishermen, and twists and turns. Speaking of twists and turns, it is amazing how the river turns, then switches back practically the way it came.  For example, although Rock Harbor Marina is only 8 miles from Nashville by car -- it is 16 miles  by River. 

This is the only ferry still working on the . Cumberland.

At the moment we are docked at Rock Harbor Marina about 8 miles from Nashville. This marina is built in an old stone quarry and like all the others, it floats.  Even the Blue Moon Restaurant where we made it just in time for Happy Hour.
The buildings are built on  barges. It is quite a fete!

Aug. 30th    This particular blog, I''m afraid is a little boring since I was very lax in taking pictures.  But we are all cleaned up and ready to DO Nashville.  We are going to take a taxi into town around 11 for some sightseeing and then we have tickets for the Grand Ole Opry this evening.  Of course, we hope to get a little "honkey tonkin" in as well. Maybe we will see the next big group that will make it big in the Country Music world.