GL: Alabama River / Mississippi River/Arkansas River

[Glenn Dean]

The Alabama River is my home waters, so of course, I'm partial.
The Alabama River is a beautiful, long river, full of wilderness, and history.

 Coming north from the Mobile,Tenn-Tom, junction you will have about two days
where you probably won't see another boat and very few signs of human
habitat.
 After that you have Selma and its rich civil war and civil rights history.
You will float under the Edmund Pettus bridge from Bloody Sunday.
Along the way you might be able to make out the embattlements on the river
banks. They are little flat places built into the banks to fire cannon at the
invading Yankee ships.
 Then you got Montgomery , cradle of the confederacy and birthplace of the
civil rights movement.
In the last few years Montgomery has greatly redeveloped the riverfront. A
favorite thing is to anchor behind the ampitheatre and listen to a concert
while grilling out.

 The downside of the Alabama River is there is only three real marinas along
its 300 or so miles.
These three offer very limited service. So make sure you are self contained.
As Capt Pat, owner of Montgomery Marina always says "Its a good day for
boatin, Bubba !"

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From: great-loop-bounces@lists.samurai.com
[mailto:great-loop-bounces@lists.samurai.com]On Behalf Of Charles and
Pat Culotta
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:53 AM
To: great-loop@lists.samurai.com
Subject: GL: Alabama River / Mississippi River/Arkansas River


Speaking of!!!

The Ala. is a very lightly traveled river and is worthy of much more as it
has a lot to offer.

We have done it and really had a nice time. It is a very pretty river.
HEARTLAND BOATING printed an article that I did on it. There  is an article
is on our web site.

THE WIFE  and I highly recommend it.

Likewise the Mississippi from Cairo, Il. to it's junction with the
Atchafalaya River in Louisiana is a good ride.
We do NOT recommend going below that point as there is no scenery, dockage,
anchorage, fuel zip. ( We live near there.)
Again, we have an article on this . Oh yes,do not plan to spend the nt on
your boat at the casino on the river as they do not allow it. You can dock
over nt. but no sleeping on board!!!

While on the Miss. hang a right at the Arkansas River and go out to
Muskogee, OK. ( They have just built a nice marina.) You can go on to Tulsa
as we did but there is nothing there and little to see. The port is 15 miles
from town and no transportation nor dockage and no where to anchor..
See an article on our web site.

All of these are easily done while on the Great Circle Cruise.

CCC and THE WIFE


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