Chattanooga, Tennessee: Boating – The Paths of Discovery

May 27 – June 6, 2022

Jane’s brother Jon and sister-in-law Nancy have an 18-foot Bennington pontoon boat and they treated us to rides on several waterways near Chattanooga.

Our first excursion was to Chatuge Lake near the Georgia/North Carolina border.

Chatuge Lake is about 2 hours from Atlanta and older cabins along its shoreline are being replaced by newer and much larger houses.

The lake is ringed by mountains.

Captain Jon

Admiral Nancy

We stayed at the Ridges Resort and Marina

Plastic cannons along the shore of the Ridges Resort are positioned to defend the property from any invasion of boats from its own marina.

Sunrise captured by Dave’s phone

Sunrise captured by Jane’s phone

Early morning at the resort

Dave and Jon relaxing by the lake

We took two rides on the Tennessee River. We had hoped to visit two islands and claim geocaches that have gone unfound for eight years. The dock at Williams Island was posted so we passed on that one. We stopped at Audubon Island under the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Chattanooga and Jane and Dave looked for the cache unsuccessfully until it was too dark to continue.

This photo was taken near the coordinates for the Audubon Island cache. Someone has a good sense of humor–there are no roads on the island.

Chattanooga bridges: Walnut Street in the foreground, Market Street behind

Walnut Street Bridge

Veterans Memorial Bridge. Dave and Jane explored the woods here looking for a geocache.

Tennessee Aquarium

Lookout Mountain

Hunter Museum of American Art

Boat ramp at Raccoon Mountain pump station

Sunday morning stroll

Nancy

Jane and Nancy

Jon

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1 Comment

Laura · August 2, 2022 at 3:40 pm

Beautiful scenery

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