Locks: 2; LWT: 10 mins; TTT: 8:55 hrs)
T'was a long day but we managed to get to the anchorage and there was still room for us. This part of the Tenn-Tom is fairly remote with lots of trees and little bays where the land was flooded. 
It was also interesting that there was a ton of water hyacinths floating down the river, sometimes quite thick and sometimes with small branches and logs floating in their midst. Not sure how or why they get separated from the shore but there is a lot of them, some still with their flowers blooming.
We are still facing 1 or 2 dams each day but not for long; we are very near the half way point between the Tennessee River and Mobile Bay, 450 miles in total. Linda and I have met up with Carleton and Becky on Seamoore, a 40 foot mainship, whom we knew, and liked, from the first Loop. They too have reservations in Marathon for December.
We are still running into some barge traffic but they are few and far between, smaller in size and there is generally more room to past them. They only become a problem when they are in or near a lock when we arrive.
Well we spent the night in a nice anchorage but we forgot to take any photos after the long day. Linda and I set the anchor after two false tries and then had Seamoore and another small trawler raft to us for the night. We BBQ'd aboard the mainship and used their outdoor Jenn-aire barbecue. It was good.
There were three other boats in the anchorage with us and they wanted to leave at 7 AM. With the lock nearby we knew that we should all lock through together. It was cold (60), it was wet with dew and it was still fairly dark but we pulled up the hook a 7 AM. We slowly found our way through a patch of fog and got through the lock immediately. We were off to Demopolis.
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