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| Wednesday, August 24, 2011 |
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The picture above shows the beautiful scenery we have been seeing all
along the Mississippi. We got an early start this morning hoping to get
ahead of all the tows. Today was locks 12 and 13. When we arrived at
Lock 12, we met many new friends - Jerry, Mary Ann, Bill, Floyd, Thomas
and DeLaSalle. You got it - 3 north bound and 3 south bound tows.
Fortunately, Mary Ann was just coming out of a north bound lockage so
within about 20 minutes they let us in. As we were entering the lock a second pleasure craft called in and was
racing to make the lock with us. They made it ....another new friend,
Marc and Michele on “Marc’sArk”. They had left Galena, IL to begin the
Loop this morning. Yup our first looper friends!
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| Barges lined up |
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| Marc's Arc |
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| The Eagle count is up to 21! |
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For those of you that know the Captain, when he says he is going downstairs he is not meaning the salon. Every day he is checking the engines and making sure everything is running smoothly.
One unique vessel on the river today was the "Jane F". You can see from the pictures she is a river clean up boat full of garbage. Female captain on the art deco tug boat. What a riot! We aren't sure if they live in the house on the front of the barge or what.
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| The Jane F |
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| Garbage barge |
When we got to the marina at Clinton, IA, we first went to the gas dock to fill up and get a pump out. There was an older gentleman in a kayak that wanted to buy $25 of gas to put in a gatorade bottle to be used for his camp stove. We contributed the little bit of gas. He had started in MN up by Lake Itasca. He looked it too.
We then did have our first disaster of the trip. All of a
sudden we hear OOPS! You got it, the gas dock girl dropped the cover to
the pooper tank into the river. We will have to wait until tomorrow to
see if they can find us a temporary one so we can head down river.
Admiral Pat signing off!
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