Tenn-Tom Waterway is behind us

 

 

  We traveled 101 miles today and officially completed our voyage on the Tenn-Tom Waterway. We have 118 miles remaining on this leg of the loop, travelling down the Tombigbee River into the Mobile Bay. Here are some interesting facts about the Tenn-Tom waterway-

 

) It is 234 miles long stretching from the Tennessee River to the Black Warrior/Tombigbee River.

 

) There are ten locks and dams and each lock is 110 feet wide and 300 feet long (same as on the Mississippi River)

 

) It was started by Richard Nixon appropriating $1 million in 1972 and completed in December 1984 at a total cost $2 billion.

 

) The Tenn-Tom is the largest earth moving project in world history with nearly 310 million cubic yards of soil moved (equal  to 100 million dump truck loads, more than was required for the Panama Canal)

 

  Sure was nice of President Nixon to think of us.

 

  Tonight we are staying at Bobby's Fish Camp and it is pretty much like it's name suggests it would be.

 

 

A great morning on the Tenn-Tom.

I usually stay casual until after breakfast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was one of the few straight aways on the waterway as evidence by my electronic chart below.

The little black boat is us.