Kingfisher Marina, Demopolis, AL, Demopolis Lock and the last river anchorages!! 11/5 - 7

 

Kingfisher Marina, Demopolis, Al. and Demopolis Lock, last river anchorages!   11/5 - 7

This is the very last marina on the rivers – over 200 miles of river left!  Sooo many loopers here!  The Demopolis Lock is about 2 miles from the marina.   We were told that this lockmaster insists that all boats leaving the marina come in to the lock at the same time.  There were so many boats leaving the next morning that there were two shifts.  The second shift, our shift, had 15 boats in the lock together!  Several had to ‘raft off’ to another boat.  We let the ‘herd’ go out of the lock first, and we took our time. 

At Kingfisher, the first people we saw was Paul and Joyce on Four Pikes!  They have a 'go fast' boat and had left the IVY marina before us - we had not seen them since.  Turns out, they've been stuck at Kingfisher with a bad motor for two weeks!  We spent some time with them, commiserating on their problems.  The Caterpillar repair folks finally came - their verdict was a rebuild of the engine's head for $28,000!  We will see them again, but had to leave them there...  

From Kingfisher, we anchored twice more on the rivers.  On November 5, we were in Bashi Creek with 6 other boats.  We were there first, and we decided to tie to trees on the bank fore and aft.  The creek was plenty deep all the way to the bank.  Only trouble was the amount of vegetation/trash on our boat after we left! 

On November 6, we anchored again in Three Rivers, mile marker 64.  Three Rivers was almost 100 miles from our last anchorage!  We were anxious to get the rivers behind us!