We're anchored at Three Rivers Lake on the Tombigbee River after running 85 miles today. The cell signal here is extremely weak, so I added pictures later, but it was a very nice day to cruise. Even though it was hot (near 90), usually the breeze on the flybridge kept us comfortable.

Mobile Bay was unbelievebaly calm and completely smooth, which was nice. It can kick up serious waves when the wind blows. That's the skyline of Mobile off in the distance.







Going through Mobile is always interesting because of the major shipbuilding activity. There was a very large Navy Trimaran being built, a number of large fast ferries (two for Hawaii), regular container ships, and lots of other ships being refitted in drydocks along the waterway.

We cruised up the Mobile River to the Tombigbee River, which is after the junction with the Alabama River. The whole Mobile river system is a huge intertwining set of rivers, swamps and estuaries forming the delta at Mobile.

We anchored on this very small lake which is down a creek about a quarter mile from the river. The lake is nice and quiet and VERY dark at night, but we can't go out on deck to see the stars because of the hoards of bugs waiting to get in as soon as we open a door.




The creek is 10 to 12 ft deep in the middle but only about 40 ft wide with overhanging trees on the shoreline, so it's spooky going along a little creek in a great big boat with absolutely no way to turn around even if we wanted to.






This evening, the generator overheated when we started it up and ran 3 air conditioners and the water heater, which automatically comes on after cruising. I turned off the water heater and ran 2 air conditioners and the genny is running fine with that load. I think the very warm river water just doesn't cool the generator when it's loaded up like that.

Tomorrow we'll go to another anchorage at Bashi Creek and then on to Demopolis, AL.