After four days"off the grid" we pulled into a marina today in Demopolis, AL, out of water, food and ice and ready to touch some terra firma . This is the last marina on the river until we get to Mobile in around 250 miles. It is the last chance for fuel, water, food and a hot shower for the next four days. The Demopolis Yacht Basin is located on the Black Warrior River, the last river we will forge on our trip to the Gulf of Mexico.
A little tid bit about Demopolis. Demopolis was settled by a group of political exiles who had been banished from France by King Louis XVIII in 1817. The U.S. Congress granted them four adjoining townships on the Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers. Many of the refugees who were from aristocratic families died of fevers and other diseases after the vine and olive crops that they brought from France failed. So far we have not encountered any French Aristocrats around the docks.
The attached picture shows some of the white cliffs we passed on the last section of the Tombigbee River today.
A little tid bit about Demopolis. Demopolis was settled by a group of political exiles who had been banished from France by King Louis XVIII in 1817. The U.S. Congress granted them four adjoining townships on the Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers. Many of the refugees who were from aristocratic families died of fevers and other diseases after the vine and olive crops that they brought from France failed. So far we have not encountered any French Aristocrats around the docks.
The attached picture shows some of the white cliffs we passed on the last section of the Tombigbee River today.
2 comments:
Hey,
Glad you're back. I thought sure that boat at the forefront of your photo belonged to a French Aristocrat.
You guys be careful waving and smiling at those young girls - remember you yanks may be in some real non-friendly territory down there!!!
You guys had to pee like Forest Gump. At least he held it till he met the President, but you guys had to shake hand with the Govenor,too bad it wasn't George Wallace.
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