New Johnsonville, KY - Taurus’s Hurricane Season Home

We left Grand Rivers marina early. We were at the end of a very long dock in need of multiple repairs, by ourselves with no other boats, next to their pontoon rentals.  I felt like Typhoid Mary. We had reserved three nights, but left after one.  

Taurus tied up by empty slips

We tried to go to a marina two hours away, but almost ran aground twice trying to go through their “channel”, so we aborted that attempt. That left us with a long day cruising to our six-week marina rental.    

In this area, the depth of the water depends on the locks and dams. Then there is a “summer pool” and a “winter pool”.  The summer pool is deeper than the winter pool. On top of that, one of the locals at our final marina today told us to subtract eight feet from what the charts say. 😬. No wonder we almost ran aground!  They don’t tell you that anywhere. 

I don’t have any pictures today because the ones I took were on my iPad.  The marina restaurant is the only place here that has Wi-Fi.  And there is NO cellular service. I mean NONE.  So my iPad is on the boat with no WiFi service or cellular service, and I can’t get the pictures on it from the restaurant. Then when we finish dinner and go back to the boat, I won’t have any way to update the blog and add pictures. 😞 

Never say never…  I have added the pictures from our trip today. It was a dark and rainy day, so not much interesting. 

We came to the marina restaurant for dinner because we heard they didn’t have any customers and were bored. When we got there at 4:45, there was a table of fishermen eating. We had a discussion with them about what fish were biting.  It turns out that bass are biting.

The waitress asked what we wanted to drink. Their drink menu shows that they have several beers on tap. So Fred asked for one of those. She went to get it and came back and said that there was no CO2, so no beers on tap. “Fine,” Fred says, “bring me a Corona.” She went to get it and there weren’t any. Fred, being a college-educated engineer, then said, “Let’s try this another way. Tell me what you have.” So he picked one of those and got his beer. 

The waitress came back a few minutes later to take our food order. Fred asked for a burger and onion rings, which was a choice on the menu. She went to put the order in and came back and said, “There’s no onion rings. The truck didn’t come in.” So now we’re laughing. Fred asked for fries and they had those.  

Update:  I took the picture of Taurus as were were leaving the restaurant and I still have Wi-Fi. Still no cellular though.