Tennessee River part 2 plus a side trip

We are enjoying the vistas along the Tennessee River.  It is a beautiful stretch of water.  The rock cliffs and the way that mother nature as carved the river into this winding body of water is totally amazing.  It is really hard to do justice in the photos, but here is our try at it.

Here are some of the pretty houses along the river, interesting as they are either built on rock or are up on stilts to accommodate the changing heights in the river.



This is a bluff called Lady Finger



This is a side trip on land that we took, we started at the marina (here is the name board)

We hiked a mile or so up into the high hills (like mountains for us flat-landers), there was this great state park.  We have discovered that the state parks (including marina state parks) are really great in both Kentucky and Tennessee.  Here is what we found-----

Yes, it is where a battle was fought between the north and the south.  We found the civil war redoubt, which we looked up later.  It is the earthen embankment where the soldiers took cover.  It resembles the bunkers of world war I.  We hiked into a cemetery and found several of the folks from this area that were born in the mid 1800's lived to be 60 and 70 years old.  We both thought this was quite a long life span for that era.

We walked a little further up the hill and this view of the river from on high was worth the exercise.