What an absolutely gorgeous day. Just when you think it
can't get better....it does. We left Columbus
Marina around 8am and slowly headed towards the Tom Bevill lock.
Along the way we came across a phone booth, in the middle of
nowhere. So we figured sometimes Superman needs to work around here and they
needed to make sure he had a place to change! :)
A little farther down river we
came across a crane that looks like a praying Mantis. Trucks where lined up
waiting to be loaded.
We got here at noon and quickly set anchor in front of the
Tom Bevill visitor's centre. We rafted Randy and Sherri to us and after lunch
we went for a little visit.
The
Montgomery is a sternwheeler steamboat, the last of it's kind of snag boats.
What is a snagboat you ask? This is a boat whose job was to go ahead of tows an
take up any snags in the water before other boats got caught up in them.
The
Montgomery was built in 1926 and retired in 1982. By the way for those of you wondering if Jim and I are getting on each other's nerves being together 24/7 ... Jim is chocking me in this picture,
Just behind the Snag boat is
an Antebellum house which is now the Tom Bevill visitor's centre. This is a
grand old house form the 1800's.
It had a hitching post on the front law, where
people used to tie up their horses. Really cool!
Of course beside all of this
was the lock. We walked over to the gate and asked if they would let us in.
Since 911, there is high security at these locks. Herman the lock-master was in
a great mood and he let us in to check out some of the workings of a lock.
OMG
this thing is massive. Control panels everywhere and he even let Sherrie close
the doors to the lock.
Our visit was amazing and we really appreciate all the
time Herman gave us, it was very informative.
We are now going to go sit up on the Lido deck and enjoy
some lemonaid (mike's of course) and slowly grill our stuffed peppers while we snack on the Adama bread I baked in the bread maker while we were visiting the Tom Bevill centre You are all drooling now, I know you are! Tomorrow will be a surprise
for us. We have several options so we will keep you all in suspense. Night all.
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