Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Sabastian and Paisley's entry for Green Turtle Bay Marina

Sabastian

The other day Paisley, Keenan and I played cops and robbers. We decided on teams and Keenan was the robber. Paisley and I would be the cops. Soon Keenan gave up and it was my turn. I quickly got caught and got another chance. This time it took the other team longer to catch me. Next up was Paisley, we side tracked her and she gave up.

Paisley
We have been at Green Turtle Bay for almost two weeks. We are planning on leaving tomorrow. We played with the Samway kids. We took a cooking class at Sugar and Spice. We visited The Land Between the Lakes Park where we feed the deer and Wild Turkeys and searched for Elk and Bison. We also had two bonfires on the beach at the marina and made Smores. We had a good time playing together.













Our cooking class at Sugar and Spice with Marilyn.










Hanging out with other Loopers!














Kelly's Island, TN to Wolf Island, TN


The fog was pretty thick when we woke up. Although, it didn't stop these fishermen. We got underway by 10:15am and the fog finally burned off by 10:45am. It made for some really cool pictures as we passed by some cliffs. 




We saw some black cows hanging out on the riverbank staring back at us. It reminded me of the cows we saw back in The Trent-Severn near Lake Simcoe!




We passed by a cool Tom Sawyer raft and waved hello.






We made it to our anchorage by 4:30pm and dropped the dingy to do some exploring on the three islands near us. Sabastian and Andrew went out to do some pre-exploring before we all headed out.




Cool animal tracks in the sand on the first beach. The sand was soft and full of really small pebbles and small bivalve shells and snail shells.




I never get tired of taking pictures of our boat! 



We made our way over to another island and Sabastian found a rope swing! This beach was full of skipping stones and other river rocks.







Cane Creek, TN to Kellys Island, TN


We had a beautiful sunrise and were underway by 9:00am. 


We drove by this anchorage spot but decided to pass on it. There were to many houses and nowhere to drop the dingy and explore without being on someone's property.




We anchored out here next to the boathouses but, after three boaters asked if we were stuck we decided to try another location. Our water depth under our hull was 2 feet. Anchorage number two was cancelled.





Our third spot proved to be the winner. It was nice and quiet. So much better than the first two spots! As the sun was setting it lit up the mountains behind us beautifully.