July 6, 2010

three lock day

This morning, we went upstream about a mile and tied to the courtesy dock at Riverside Park in La Crosse. Much shorter walk to downtown. A lot of towns along the river have courtesy docks but none allow overnight docking.
Departed about 11 and continued upstream about 35 miles, passing through 3 locks. A total of 9 locks so far. We're anchored quite a ways off the channel north of Fountain City, WI. Woods and weeds make for lots of bugs. I doubt we'd survive if we couldn't close up and run the A C. No breeze and 85 degrees.
We're into the bluffs--a very scenic area. My camera can't begin to capture it. Especially my phone's camera. ( My only way to email photos to the blog.)
Plan to stop at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, MN tomorrow. Not sure where we go after that. Starting to run out of steam on the Mississippi.

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