Paris Landing Marina

This area of the Tennessee River is so picturesque.  I cannot say enough about how beautiful the scenery is and how deep and clean the water is --- we could live here in a heartbeat.  We traveled about 38 miles from Kenlake to Paris Landing.  We are now back in Tennessee!!  After we checked into the marina, it was about 4PM so we decided to go back into the lake and try our first anchor.  So we went into a nice cove and nestled our boat within Land Between the Lakes.  The scenery is unbelievably gorgeous.  There are all kinds of wildlife, including birds, deer, fish, White and Blue Herons and even an eagle.  We decided to “take a dip in the water”.  It felt great so we floated on our noodles for a while.  We had a perfect view for another unbelievable sunset.  With it being so flat, we knew it would get dark as soon as the sun went over the horizon so we decided we needed to get the anchor up and start our ride back to the marina before dark.  While we were waiting on the sunset, I decided to sit on the back swim platform and enjoy the scenery.  Little did I know I needed to have a fly-swat handy.  I have never needed a fly-swat in all my years of boating because the flies were so bad!!  Luckily we had one handy and I killed at least 20 files.  Finally these flies realized I had cat-like reflexes and if they wanted to live another day, they needed to go elsewhere.  That’s the only explanation I have as to the reason why they left!! 

Beautiful Anchor Spot

Splash of Mud from the anchor.  Time to Clean up.

Grey Heron sitting high welcoming us to the Marina

The marina was very nice, updated and looked new.  There was no restaurant there, so we had to “rough-it” and make something to eat on Cloud Nine!!   In addition to many sailboats there, there were also two 65’ yachts there.  One was over $2.3M and will be leaving soon for UT Football games then on to Florida for the winter.  This yacht was bought in Canada and they hired a Captain to drive the boat to Paris Landing.  That sounds like a great “job” for Gene and I to do – drive yachts from one place to another – well someone’s gotta do it – why not us!!   

Paris Landing Marina and in Daylight

Paris Landing Marina at Night

Also the US Coastguard keeps their barges here loaded with the navigational buoys (red/green cans) that mark the deepest part of the river channel -- a critical part of navigating the waters to avoid getting in shallow water.  Since the Coastguard is located at this marina, the navigational markers coming into this marina were exceptional.....

US Coastguard barge

Thursday night had a nice breeze all night so we didn’t have any dew to wipe down the next morning!!  That is always a plus!!  Since the sunrise was so beautiful the day before, we decided to get up early enough to experience another unbelievable sunrise.   

Below are sunset pictures.

My on-board Photographer (and Captain)

Gene is still struggling with hangnails…and making an ordeal about it.  He wants another manicure.  I re-introduced him to a fingernail file and told him to “get after it”.  Although disappointed, he followed directions well!!!  Soon, we were ready to un-tie and head to our next destination – Pebble Isle Marina.

Cloud Nine at Night!!