Thursday, 9/17/15
Another day on the Mississippi – it’s 10 feet higher than
the last time we were here, its wide and its fast. We got up at sunrise to get
an early start. There are areas of great
turbulence on the river. Those areas
require attention and calm, but they break up the ride and make it
interesting. We have been traveling with
Blue Haven, from Milwaukee; Gemini, from LaPorte IN; Sea to See from Orcas
Island in the San Juan Islands area near Washington State, and Namaste, a
sailboat from Michigan. All such very
nice people, we have been having a lot of fun.
We went through very busy barge areas today where they were
building big barges out of small ones, for the trip down to New Orleans. Tonight we are anchored in a Little Diversion
Channel, near Cape Girardeau MO – a quiet spot out of the busy river. There are 7 boats anchored here and there
would be room for several more.
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| Sunrise over the Mississippi River |
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| Namaste, a beautiful Ketch |
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| See to Sea |
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| Scenery on the Mississippi |
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| Cape Girardeau, MO |
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| Gemni foreground, Blue Haven in the back |
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