Thursday Oct. 24 

23 miles   Aberdeen to Columbus, MS

We left Aberdeen marina at 0900.

 

 

The day started out cool but sunny and by afternoon we were back in shorts. Only had one lock to go through today and we traveled with the same 4 boats as yesterday. We were all headed to Columbus Marina MS to stay the night. The river along the way was still narrow but not as many stumps along this section. As we were cruising along, the Tombigbee River curves in and out and crosses the Tenn-Tom in many places. We are really glad to be on the Tenn-Tom instead for its straighter and faster course.

 

 Some parts of the Tombigbee river entering the Tenn-Tom were very narrow...

 

 and some were very wide.

 

 

As we got closer to Columbus we started seeing a lot of jets flying over. Later we found out that Columbus has an Air Force Base. This base started during World War II to train pilots and was also used during the Korean War. Now they do a lot of training on the T-37 jets.  

 

We arrived at Columbus Marina at 1200.