07/09/20 – Irvin Cobb Marina to Green Turtle Bay Resort

Finally, on Thursday morning, 07/09/20, it was time for us to finish our trip to Green Turtle Bay Resort in Grand Rivers, KY! Kristinwas more than ready to get to a slip we could stay put in for awhile! We left Irvin Cobb Marina about 9:00 am and headed out onto more glass-like water. We experienced no locks nor problems, thank you very much! About two hours into the trip, Steve called the number listed for Green Turtle Bay Resort to let them know we expected to arrive there that afternoon. (Steve had already contacted GTB earlier this summer to find out if we needed to reserve a slip in advance, and was told there was no need, as their transient docks almost always have space available this time of year.) The first person Steve spoke with worried both of us when she said she thought the transient docks at GTB were all full. This gave us both a start, considering we had been planning for quite some time to spend July and August of 2020 at Green Turtle Bay! She told us she would verify and return our call, but we heard nothing back from her. In the meantime, Steve found a different phone number for the GTB marina office, where he spoke with harbor master, Bill Gary, who had much happier news for us. There was plenty of transient space available, as Steve had originally been told, and Bill assigned us Transient Slip #13 once we arrived. We had over-estimated the amount of travel time we had between Irvin Cobb Marina and GTB – delightfully – and arrived at at the Green Turtle Bay Resort by 1:00 pm. We found our slip with no trouble and were glad to see it is relatively close to the marina restrooms and laundry facilities. (Always a big plus in my book!) We are in an actual slip this time with dock fingers on either side of our boat (rather than being on a wall, with only one side of our boat protected). We are right in the middle of the action, which means we’re within walking distance of several restaurants. Not long after we arrived, we had people coming down onto the docks and inspecting our boat. People walk right out onto the dock fingers next to the boats, which means they can peer right into any uncovered windows, whether the boats’ inhabitants are onboard or not! We’ve had more than one person gawk right in on us several times, so we’re mindful of which drapes we open or close.. I noted to Steve that a major difference between our former (“dirt home”) lifestyle and our new live-aboard lifestyle is that we didn’t formerly wake up each morning to wash the entire outside of our house down to remove all the insect carcasses, nor did we have to worry about strange peoples’ faces suddenly appearing less than a foot outside of our windows and staring inside!

Once we got settled into slip T-13, we walked over to Dockers By the Bay (one of the marina cafes) for a marina cafe style lunch, then we aired out Steve’s BMW Z, which we had shuttled up from Aqua the previous week. We drove it to Paducah (about 30 minutes away) to pick-up some of my prescriptions that I’m now having to request be transferred to different pharmacies around the country, rather than automatically refilled at our good old CVS on Carothers Parkway in Franklin, TN, as they’d been for the past 8 years.