We left at a reasonable time this morning. About 9am and the lock was ready and waiting. In fact we had locks ready and waiting all day. Ok, there were 3 locks, but still!
Pretty river again. Do I keep saying that? The fall colors are just beginning to be prevalent down here and combined with the calm river it's really scenic. We didn't see any tows and other than a few fisherman no pleasure craft.
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| Armory Lock |
We went through three locks. All were locking us down which is much more relaxing than up locking. We did have one potentially scary issue in the last lock where we had to grab a bollard very near the lock gate. Turns out I had to back the boat up to make sure the lock gate cleared our bow.
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| Just Fakin it and Good Grief coming into anchorage |
Our goal today was the Canal Cut-off anchorage at mile 366. Its a basically a river flowing into the bigger river. We nosed in and, with some advice from some local duck organization guys, sneaked our way into the river (river is more aptly described as creek) . We anchored pretty much where some of the cruising resources we rely on said we should. Our anchor and three boats. But calm current and I thing I have the boat oriented between the wind and current according to the data NOAA has published. We'll sleep well tonight!
We rafted with 3 boats this time. Just Fakin it had an engine over heat problem after the last lock so they anchored near us with Good Grief, but not rafted to us. Bob from Good Grief was able to lend some expertise to Jeff in solving the problem. Turns out to be either bad hose or bad circ pump. So now instead of 5 rafted boats we have only three. Seems rather lonely! And less of a party aboard, but a party none-the-less!
We'll be heading to Columbus marina in the tomorrow and stay there a few days to wait out some storms passing through.
And still hoping for more of Diane's chocolate chip cookies!
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