DAY 46 - November 16, 2023

We stayed at the Kingfisher Bay Marina overnight and will continue here until tomorrow morning. Today was our last chance to provision before a four day stretch traveling over two hundred miles with no support. We used the marina's courtesy car to run to Walmart and eat out at a Huddles restaurant. I also spent time working on several boat projects.

While shopping at Walmart Denise was pretty surprised by the number and size of the pork hocks. This is the part of the pig's leg above the foot. Denise doesn't remember seeing these in our local Kroger stores in Cincinnati.

Demopolis is an interesting mix of a grand old community with great history, but also a struggling downtown with rows of closed stores.

One of Demopolis' claim to fame is a multi-day Christmas on the River celebration which includes a boat parade. We won't be here for this event, but we saw several boats and floats that already have lights strung up on a wire structure.

Another thing Demopolis has going for it is the natural beauty surrounding the city.

The tree in the top photo is a cypress tree. They grow in the south in or near water. The roots, called knees, grow upward, above the ground. When my Dad was in the Air Force and stationed in Mississippi he used to saw the knees off and finish them like the ones in the photo. People would make lamps out of them or use them for decorations.