The Great Loop

Cumberland River gallery

 

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From the Cottonwood Towhead we traveled downstream to a slough near Cairo IL, our entrance to the Ohio:

When is a nun not a nun?

Answer below gallery

Cumberland clay

The Cumberland's banks were generally high.

Red Tug

Ruth thought it was cute.

Cumberland rock

The river had miles of high rock.

And Miles of sand

All of it high!

Open Sesame

The Barkley Dam lock entrance.

We go to town

The town at Green Turtle Bay is definitely tourist driven.

Local History

Ruth found a small cemetary - being that it was halloween...

Recorded history

and took a few shots of historic tombstones.

Goblins

Halloween in this small town was neat to watch.

The answer to photo one: the red nun with a green body signifies that the buoy is a green can for the secondary river (in this case the Cumberland) and a red nun for the primary river, the Ohio.

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