The trip here from Hardin was uneventful with plenty of sightings of eagles and even a fawn that wandered down by the river for a cold one.
Today's trip was only 20 miles so we covered it in about three hours.
The unusual boat/barge? at the left was up on a bank and looked interesting due to its eclectic construction.
The boat in these next two pictures was a real sweetheart and obviously very well cared for.
Unfortunately, we heard that the owner had to return to Maryland and here it sits stuck in Loop time.
Fortunately, our information was wrong and we met Jim & Elizabeth who are Looping along with Elizabeth's feisty, 86 year-old mother.
They have had quite an adventure bringing this sweet Irwin Pilothouse Sloop all the way from Maryland through the Trent Severn, Lake Michigan and the Illinois River Waterway to here on the edge of the Big Muddy.
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| Elizabeth's Mom, Jim, Elizabeth (Heron Crew) and Captain John of Dutchess |
We ran into "Beauty" the big Catalina from Algonac, MI which we saw last on the wall in Joliet. They have been moving along, anchoring out every night and enjoying new scenery every day.
Bryce is an electrical engineer and we saw them here because he has picking up a package at the local post office. He moves along 30-50 miles a day, relaxes over a few cold ones and then writes computer code late into the night on one of the many computers aboard. He apparently has a self-contained wi-fi connection allowing him to upload finished code back to the home office as it is completed.
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