Joe Wheeler State Park

Welcome to the AGLCA Fall Rendezvous at Joe Wheeler State Park in Rogersville, Alabama.

We spent four fabulous days meeting new cruisers, reconnecting with old friends and having wonderful meals in a setting that is right out of a magazine. What a terrific time of year to appreciate nature in all her glory.

Joe Wheeler State Park, located on Wheeler Lake, offers something for everyone; a resort lodge, a restaurant, cabins, camping, fishing, golf, tennis, swimming, convention/banquet facilities, transient slips and a marina.

We pulled into the marina on Saturday with 60 other boats that are doing the Great Loop.

Many of us started on the east coast and have been traveling for many months. I was surprised at how many new loopers there were that recently started anywhere from Canada, Lake Michigan, and cities south of Chicago.

This was the group at the Spring Rendezvous 7 months ago in Norfolk.

 

The group now looks as if it has doubled in size.

We had seminars each day, covering future routes and places to visit along the way. There were life raft demonstrations, information on marine electronics and even cooking aboard your boat.

We ate huge buffet meals with our friends, Mike, Gay, Anita, and Don.

And had many evening get-togethers on the dock.

 

 

 We finished the weekend with a long walk around the park.

 

As Sammy discovered the ducks.

Who me?
 

 

The rendezvous ended on Wednesday and many loopers left this morning towards Chattanooga or Mobile.

 

 

But our thoughts are with our friends and family in Miami, as a hurricane bears down on Florida and the beautiful east coast of the U.S. that we just traveled through.