Our longest boating day...10 hours running time. We left those jumping Asian Carp in our wake and scooted back into the Mississippi right in front of the tow "Randy Eckstein". He was behind us ALL day. We are starting to cath on to the tow lingo on the radio and it was interesting to hear them chatter to Randy about the river conditions and where they were. Kept us informed cause we sure felt like we were the only folks on the river. We encountered very few folks on our long stretch. Those we did encounter were pretty huge and pushing lots of barges. We even got so we could tell if they were empties or full. Heavy showers outsdie of Cape Gireardeau made us really glad we had the canvas up. Those new zippered windows worked great. New to us though were all the whirlpools in the water. In some areas you just couldn't avoid them. Many were dangerously large and deep...yes, made me skittish. We decided to push alittle and traveled on to the Angelo Towhead for the night. We are in the area behind an island just off the US 60 Cairo Highway. Anchoring was a piece of cake...Linda at the helm and Floyd managing the anchor line. Then came the fun of transferring the 50 gallons from Big Bertha. We had a siphon and some hose that didn't really match up...but with a little duct tape and we were good to go. Only took us about 40 minutes. We've got gas and water to spare...one more night out and two full travel days til we reach Green Turtle Bay on the Cumberland River. It will be slower going as we'll be headed up river with current against us. We are trying to maintain 14oo rpm to monitor and conserve fuel. We figure that'll be a whopping 6 miles per hour....I'm reading a good book. Let us hear from you by logging on to the comments bar. We are missing our friends.
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