Traveling about 50 miles on a beautiful sunny day is no
hardship- especially when there are no locks with which to contend. The Mississippi is very muddy and weir dykes
and wing dams built to stay the heavy current make for very turbulent waters. Closer to St. Louis there are pretty homes
that dot the shore but the further south you go it is really barren. The weather is just perfect and predicted to
be such for the next week. The Kaskaskia Lock
offered a great tie off and we were joined there by 4 other boats- Fugitive
(scene of our docktails), Cutty’s Arc (Newbies to the Loop out of Port Charles,
Mo), Next Step (Chattanooga people-almost done), and Valentine (California people-been on the Loop for years and sort of wonder). This was a great place to spend the night and
we all got up and rolled by 8am. Little
Diversion is a couple of miles south of Cape Girardeau, Mo. and one of the few places
to anchor off the Mississippi. Even
though we have traveled 70 miles the current has brought us to this anchorage
by 2pm. Only Fugitive anchored with us—the
rest of the gang went on –some as far as the mouth of the Ohio River—we will
catch up with them probably at Green Turtle Bay on the Cumberland.
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| Mist on the water as we cast off of Kaskaskia Lock |
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| Shores of the Mississippi have great bluffs--these reminded us of mushrooms |
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| Chester--Birthplace of Popeye |
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| Lots of trains--Holden would love these |
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| Cape Girardeau--birthplace of Rush Limbaugh |
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| Fugitive--Janis and Brian--anchored with us at Little Diversion |
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