Treading Water

Treading Water
We’ve been here at Green Turtle Bay for four days. This is a huge marina/resort and a big meeting place for Loopers. There are about 15 looper boats here at the moment…many preparing for the trip to the Looper rendezvous, on the Tenessee River, at Wheeler State Park in Rogersville Alabama on October 16th. Green turtle Bay is an amazing place, another real surprise. It’s on Lake Cumberland which is part of the Kentucky Lakes chain.There are over 1,000 miles of shoreline on Lake Barkley alone. You can boat to any port in the world from this area, and even better you have thousands of miles of beautiful INLAND waterways to explore. This is part of both the Cumberland river and the Tenessee river with many smaller rivers as tributaries. If you went down the Cumberland for a week, you’d float past, Nashville, Tenn and into 2 huge lakes beyond…one is the home of the mansions of the country-Western stars from Nashville. It was our intent to travel down the Cumberland, but generator problems will keep us here at Green Turtle so we probably won’t have the time to make this side trip. Not a bad place to be stuck. GTB has everything! A huge marina, two restaurants, pool, tennis, ships store, beautiful grounds, condos, houses etc. There are houseboats here that are 120’ long by 22’wide. The big ones all cost between $1,000,000-$3,000,000! One of them is owned by the parents of a University of Kentucky basketball player, and on the top deck is a regulation height basketball hoop. The little town of Grand Rivers is cute and only a mile walk. We’ve been riding our collapsible bikes and are really happy with them. We continue to meet great people. Spent last night on board “champagne LuLu” with Linda and Roy from Sacramento and Patty and Robert from Montana. We will move on tomorrow (we think)