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Sailing from Alton, Illinois to Fort Myers, Florida
Down the Tennessee-Tombigby Waterway
Grand Rivers, Kentucky to Mobile, Alabama
December 2009-January 2010
 
Paris Landing State Park, Tennessee
River, 12-26-09, 
mile 66
Cuba Landing Marina, 12-27-09, mile 115.5
Clifton Marina, 12-28-09, 
mile 158.5
Getting fuel at 
Grand Harbor, 
Pickwick Lake, 12-29-09
Grand Harbor: our 
first night on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, mile 249.7
Some people travel
in style!
Leaving Bay Springs Marina, early on New Year's Eve, mile 322
Getting ready 
to enter 
Whitten Lock
 
Waiting for gates
to close
We just dropped 84 feet!
   ...and out we go
Happy New Year! We're docked at Smithville Marina, 
12-31-09, mile 377 
Smithville is the first place that the water was not turned off at the dock. 
Columbus Marina
the sun is coming
up soon
it is cold
how deep is the water?
"Nice Tri" (trimaran) tied up in front of us 
inside the last lock
we went through
 
last place we 
anchored before Mobile. There are alligators somewhere!
deer swimming near
our anchor place on the side of the river
it is time to 
get moving
a railroad bridge
with vertical 
clearance of 4ft
Mobile and the Dog River Marina
After about 900 River Miles and 16 Locks from St. Louis, the Larabeck arrived in Mobile Bay. 
The Marina is on the Dog River.
we are getting 
close to Mobile
new trimaran--
locks fast
downtown 
Mobile, AL
lots of activity in the port of Mobile
a fishing boat on Mobile Bay
the mast is up
 
Larabeck at Turner Marina
Next: Mobile, Alabama to Fort Myers, Florida

Previous photos: Alton, Illinois to Grand Rivers, Kentucky
 
 

If you want to know more about the journey of the Grafs who are sailing
from Illinois to the South Pacific, go to the Larabeck home