October 15
We left Demopolis at 0800 and by prearranging with the lock master, motored right into the chamber and dropped 40 feet. We are travelling with Johnson & Johnson, and Rambunctious through this next, and last leg of the river voyage. The plan today was to cruise about 60 miles to an anchorage at Bashi Creek. Much to our chagrin it was only 40 feet wide and 6 feet deep because of the low water level. The other two boats are travelling 2 mph faster than us so they pressed on to Bobby's Fish Camp which has moorage. We had the same idea but ran out of daylight! Just as everything went totally black, we saw an anchorage at Okatuppa Creek, and anchored. I was ok with navigating at night, but we had seen a number of logs the last few hours and did not want to risk a bump in the night!
The picture is of bass fishermen behind the lock.