And another bump on the departure in this skinny bay of Hairston Creek.
This navigational buoy shows the flotsam that clogs the river, snagged on the green buoy.
We weren’t able to stop to view the Snagboat Museum at Tom Bevill Lock and Dam, which was too bad. We read that it is the 1926 vintage US Snagboat Montgomery, which was the last steam-powered sternwheeler to ply the inland waterways of the south. For nearly six decades, the 108 foot long Montgomery labored to keep seven of the South’s major rivers navigable by removing “snags” or obstructions in the waterway. We wish she was still in service!
Our last lock of the day was Tom Bevill, whose adjacent dam was letting water out of the river system, in a most impressive way!
Just to the right of our exit from the lock, we hooked a hard right into Heflin Ox Bow, a natural kink in the river, which was wide and deep, with a current that kept us comfortably on our hook and well out of the channel for the night.
And another bump on the departure in this skinny bay of Hairston Creek.
This navigational buoy shows the flotsam that clogs the river, snagged on the green buoy.
We weren’t able to stop to view the Snagboat Museum at Tom Bevill Lock and Dam, which was too bad. We read that it is the 1926 vintage US Snagboat Montgomery, which was the last steam-powered sternwheeler to ply the inland waterways of the south. For nearly six decades, the 108 foot long Montgomery labored to keep seven of the South’s major rivers navigable by removing “snags” or obstructions in the waterway. We wish she was still in service!
Our last lock of the day was Tom Bevill, whose adjacent dam was letting water out of the river system, in a most impressive way!
Just to the right of our exit from the lock, we hooked a hard right into Heflin Ox Bow, a natural kink in the river, which was wide and deep, with a current that kept us comfortably on our hook and well out of the channel for the night. 
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