Sunday Oct. 6 

106 miles   Chattanooga, TN to Guntersville, AL.

It was time to move on so we pulled off the dock at 0930. A few miles downstream we passed by the Baylor School. Founded in 1893 as a private prep school, it later became a military school and most recently a co-educational private high school.

 

A little farther downstream we passed back into Central Time Zone and got a nice view of Signal Mountain. This mountain was used by Native Americans to send fire and smoke signals across the Tennessee Valley and later the Union army used it as a communications station during the Civil War.

 

Only 1 lock to go through today and they were all set for us when we arrived so we could go right through. Not far past the Nickajack Lock we crossed back into Alabama. A little farther and we came to the South Pittsburg Bridge. This bridge features a suspended arch, and the horizontal clearance is the widest of any bridge on the Tennessee River.

 

The wind started to pick up and we actually had 1 foot waves on the river. This is the first time since we left Lake Michigan that we saw white caps on the water. We have Sirrus weather on our GPS so we were keeping an eye on it. We decided to keep going to Guntersville instead of anchoring out. We arrived in Guntersville at 1910 and so did the rain. We got soaked tying up the boat.