Goose Pond Marina, AL to Caney Hollow, AL

September 26^th, 2015
Saturday
Miles Traveled 27.2
Total Miles Traveled 580
Day 17

You can track where we are on your computer or from your smartphone (by downloading a free app) called Find Ship.  This app is not real time, but if we are underway, it will show our location, usually within the hour. After downloading the free app, type in Moni Jean in the box at the top of the screen and it will show our location.  I turn off our AIS transmitter when anchored so it will show our location an hour before we anchored. 

We departed Goose Pond Marina on Guntersville Lake at 10 a.m this morning after spending 2 days next to  “California Girl” and “Hallelujah”, both doing the loop.   “Hallelujah” had already completed the Loop once, so when they complete this leg of their adventure, they will have completed the Loop more than once and fly a Platinum Burgee.

It was cloudy with intermittent drizzle most of the day. 

We passed this barge today hauling a huge motor; I wouldn’t want to pay the electric bill to run that thing. 

 

We only traveled 27 miles today to a great anchorage behind Goat Island on Guntersville Lake.  This area is known as Honeycomb Creek and is one of the most beautiful places we have anchored since starting the loop.  It is surrounded by mountains and Goat Island and we anchored at Caney Hollow in about 19 feet of water.  

 

We dropped the dinghy in the water and tried our luck at fishing this afternoon, of course Moni caught a Bluegill and I came up empty handed.  We had fun going around the shoreline and taking in the scenery.  After an hour or so, a trawler came into the bay with a Great Loop Burgee, so we pulled in our lines and went over to meet “I think I Can….”.  They started the Loop in Florida so they are on the last leg of their adventure..

This is the US Hwy 431 Bridge going into Guntersville, AL.  We are going down stream on the river, so we keep the Green Buoys on the right and the Red Buoys on the left.  There is a green square on the bridge support on the right and a red triangle on the bridge support on the left.  This information tells us that this is the section under the bridge that we need to cross.  The vertical clearance scale is on the bridge support on the right is indicating 60 ft of clearance.