Day 58 – 59
On Sunday morning, 11/08/20, we were blessed with yet another glorious fall day, weatherwise, when we left Florence Harbor Marina. We were up in the flybridge enjoying the beautiful morning and the scenery when Steve spotted none other than a DEER swimming up in front of us across the narrow waterway! It was on a collision course with our boat, so of course we slowed down to idle speed, to let it pass, because swimming animals have the right-of-way! The doe didn’t appear to be upset or fleeing from anything, she was just leisurely trying to get to the other side. 😊 We’d seen swimming deer pictures posted on The Great Loop Facebook page before, but this was our first in-person sighting. We waited until the deer had moved far off of our starboard side before putting Legacy back into gear and continuing downriver. We definitely had our topic of conversation for the rest of the morning!
We arrived at Aqua Yacht Harbor at 2 pm on the afternoon of the 8th, where we again tied to the transient wall for a couple of nights of more rocking and rolling. (Have I mentioned I hate tying up on the Aqua transient wall?) Monday, 11/09/20, was boat-cleaning day, inside and out, grocery run into Corinth, MS, and catch up on laundry day. We finished our last binge-watching program on Amazon Prime, and have begun watching Fortitude – a dark drama about an extremely northern-most town in Norway, where strange murders keep occurring, despite the efforts of local government and law enforcement officials to curtail them. It’s a rather graphic (actually grizzly) program that we probably shouldn’t have started, but we’re too far into it now to quit it.
Monday, 11/09/20, was a boat cleaning and grocery run day in Aqua’s courtesy van. We drove all the way into Corinth, MS, so we could visit a Walmart. Back in our “dirt home” days, we did everything in our power to stay OUT of Walmart, and now we visit one in almost every town we pass through. Go figure!
Position: N 34° 59.413, W 88° 14.877
Distance traveled: 37.6 NM
Total distance traveled: 998 NM
Total marina nights: 48
Total nights at anchor: 11
Locks today: 0
Locks Total: 15