Day 428 September 24 33mi Green Turtle Bay Marina Grand Rivers KY

The Cumberland River flows almost 690 miles through Tennessee.  The navigable portion is 381 miles and ends at Celina.  However, today we will travel along the river for only about 33 miles.  The Cumberland snakes its way through a pretty region,  a peaceful, gentle river, ultimately taking us to Lake Barkley and Green Turtle Bay Marina.  This is our final travel day on the Great American Loop.

Leaving the Cumberland Towhead at 8:30 AM

Back out to the Ohio river, around the bend and we are on the Cumberland River

Smithland KY

Looking at Smithland Lock and Dam on the Ohio River

Such a change from the Mississippi River

Land for Sale

Traveling with Pura Vida and Freedom

Tugboat working the river....lots of barges along the banks

Large commercial area

Interesting watching the truck dump his rock

Bissell Bluff

Good morning Howard Corse....Pine Bluff AR

Barges unloaded

Barges loaded.....so low in the water

Super Stone Towboat ready to take them down river

Jerry Jones collecting his load

I-24 Highway.....how many times have we traveled over this bridge

We are almost to our marina

Eureka Highway.....blue bridge

Barkley Lock and Dam with a 57 foot lift

We have sat up there and watched the river traffic

Towboat with his load goes first.....PCs wait @ an hour

This is one of the newest locks we saw

Pura Vida

Freedom

We even had a towboat in our last lock

Captain....we have completed 98 locks

Lake Barkley

Don't cut the corner....follow the channel

Barkley Lock and Dam

Green Turtle Bay Marina

We have completed the Great American Loop.......1907 miles this season makes it a total of 5907 miles we have traveled in 428 days......

No....we don't know what we want to do when we grow up.......