They had a great summer here yesterday. Rain today. NOAA says maybe 2". At least we have the river pretty much to ourselves today. Haven't seen a single Baja or Donzi.
In over 150 miles on the water, we've only seen 2 sailboats. Well, 1 sailboat (an O'Day) and 1 MacGregor.
The river looks to be over 2 miles wide here. However, other than the marked channel, it's too shallow to navigate. Most is covered with lilly pads. The farther north we go, the more bluffs there are. The little towns are crammed in between the bluffs and the river. And the railroad runs along both sides of the river. One little town had the railroad, a row of houses, a street, another row of houses, a landing strip, another row of houses, then the bluff. All parallel to the river, and all with the absolute minimum clearance. An airplane landed between the houses as we passed by. I think we heard some mom yelling at her kid..."Don' forget, look left and right and up before you cross the street.
The current continues. I was motoring upstream at 6 mph, and decided to go back to a gas dock we had just passed. Without changing the rpm's, we were going 11 mph downstream. The high water also brings lots of logs. Sometimes entire trees are floating downstream.
There's a big July 4th riverfest in LaCross today. We've heard the Coast Guard on the VHF advising that the river will be closed. We plan to anchor tonight and then stay in LaCross tomorrow.
Hopefully the crowd will be gone.
We got off the river early today (3:00) and went a couple of miles up Lost Slough Channel behind Henderson Island to anchor in a protected area in case NOAA is right about the predicted storms.
As I dropped the anchor off the bow, it went straight down in 30' of water. At the same time, the transducer on the stern showed 4'. Interesting place.
About a half mile south of Minnesota. Ya, ubetcha.
N 43 28.872
W 091 13.492
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