More sights from LBL

Well, we finally have a destination for Play Dough, it's Chattanooga. When we leave Kentucky, we'll be heading back to Chattanooga where we'll keep the boat while it's for sale. Just as when we began, Chattanooga is as close to home as we can park her. This will allow us to travel back and forth to care for the boat as well as use her for short local cruises.

We did a bit more sightseeing before leaving for home. We visited Fort Donelson National Battlefield at Dover, TN. Fort Donelson was the site of an interesting Civil War battle at which the Confederate troops sank several of the Union's Ironclad Battleships as they came up the Cumberland River. We also visited the Woodlands Nature Station, another attraction of the LBL National Recreation Area. Woodlands is an exhibit with much of the native wildlife on display. We saw everything from owls to eagles, bobcats to coyotes.

"Furnaces like this were common here-used in the iron industry from 1820's to 1920's"

"From this position Confederate troops could see smoke rising above the trees as the Union battleships were steaming upstream to attack Fort Donelson"

"Bobcat having a mouse for lunch"

"A Barn Owl"

"A Bald Eagle"