Thursday, Nov 6 – Aberdeen Marina mm358.2 to Windham Landing Cutoff mm 286

Up at sunrise, called the lock to be informed that there would be a 45 minute wait.  Colletta decided to take a quick shower.  She just lathered up when she heard a pound on the door – luckily it was Tom.  The lockmaster called and said to come now and he would squeeze us in between 2 tows.  With engines warming up, Colletta’s hair in a towel, we departed the dock.  We snaked our way out of the marina in perfect timing to see a northbound tow exit the lock, and were told to “Come on in”.  We were lucky.  A southbound tow was about 3 miles upriver from us, and a northbound tow was already waiting for us to be lowered and exit.  Had we not made this timing just right, we would have been there for at least another 2-3 hours.  Another beautiful day, sunshine and warm – 70 degrees.  At 1315, we entered Alabama for good after snaking thru both Mississippi and Alabama. This was another 3 lock day – Aberdeen lock, Stennis lock and the Bevil Lock.   Arrived at anchorage at 1615 only to see 3 steers (like in cows) on the river front staring at us.  They were wondering what we were doing there and we enjoyed seeing some “new meat”.   The anchorage was as describing in Active Captain, 15 ft. of water all the way in, good holding, mud bottom and no trip line.  Dinner was great, finished the chocolate so we need to provision. 

Our neighbors for the evening