We're still here at Pirates Marina Cove, a funky, fun small marina with about 5 other loop boats. One of the great Looper Traditions is to have a Social Hour every evening. With 6 boats contributing the snacks have been outstanding and we've gotten to meet more looper couples and trade stories with them. Yesterday we rode our bikes to the Tom Beville Visitors Center about a mile away. Built in 1982, the antebellum style mansion is impressive and the exhibits tell the story of the TennTom Waterway. Also on site is the retired and permanently moored Snagboat
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y. She was the last steam powered sternwheeler to ply the inland waterways of the south. From 1926 to 1982, she worked for the Army Corps of Engineers as a snagboat pulling trees, logs and other obstructions to navigation. Steve liked touring the boat more than the mansion, go figure. We went aboard and saw the massive steam boilers, crew quarters, engine room and pilot house. Today, we went back by dinghy and took this picture of her from the water. That's about the only tourist attraction around here, so we spent today scrubbing the decks and dinghy and Steve installed the stereo on the flybridge. We've heard that the boats are departing again from Demopolis as the River levels are starting to drop, so current plans are to head out in the morning. Still 300 miles to go until we hit the salt water, but we're starting to think about palm trees and sand beaches.
We're still here at Pirates Marina Cove, a funky, fun small marina with about 5 other loop boats. One of the great Looper Traditions is to have a Social Hour every evening. With 6 boats contributing the snacks have been outstanding and we've gotten to meet more looper couples and trade stories with them. Yesterday we rode our bikes to the Tom Beville Visitors Center about a mile away. Built in 1982, the antebellum style mansion is impressive and the exhibits tell the story of the TennTom Waterway. Also on site is the retired and permanently moored Snagboat 
Montgomer.jpg)
y. She was the last steam powered sternwheeler to ply the inland waterways of the south. From 1926 to 1982, she worked for the Army Corps of Engineers as a snagboat pulling trees, logs and other obstructions to navigation. Steve liked touring the boat more than the mansion, go figure. We went aboard and saw the massive steam boilers, crew quarters, engine room and pilot house. Today, we went back by dinghy and took this picture of her from the water. That's about the only tourist attraction around here, so we spent today scrubbing the decks and dinghy and Steve installed the stereo on the flybridge. We've heard that the boats are departing again from Demopolis as the River levels are starting to drop, so current plans are to head out in the morning. Still 300 miles to go until we hit the salt water, but we're starting to think about palm trees and sand beaches.
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