Time for a Break

     We are anchored in the Mermentau River. We have been moving pretty good but it is time for a break. This is the best place we have found to anchor since Destin Harbor. We will stay at least one more night if not two. It is so nice to be stopped. It is also nice to only have to use one anchor. On Wednesday night the only place we could find to anchor was in the mouth of a little canal off the ICW. We used four anchors to hold us in place. It was not fun pulling them all up the next morning. It was so nice to just relax yesterday afternoon and enjoy the anchorage. I think I might take the dingy out today and look around.

     We are not near much of anything here which is good. This is the kind of anchorage that I like. The funny thing is that we do not have cell phone service but did find an unsecured wifi to connect to, so we have internet but no phone. That is a first.

     We have been running 9 or 10 hour days and not making bad time for a slow trawler. 958 nautical miles so far. It has been a little over 5 weeks since we left the Keys. I have thoroughly enjoyed the trip all the way up to New Orleans, but honestly the last 220 miles have just been work. Don't get me wrong some of it has been nice. It does seem that the further west we get the better it gets. I can not wait to hit Texas.
     Five years ago when we went down the Mississippi River to New Orleans people told us we were crazy, that we were going to get run over by a barge, there were no services, and it would be a dangerous and horrible trip. I would venture to say that we have already seen more barges in the last 200 miles of the ICW than the entire 800 miles that we were on the Mississippi. I would rather do the Mississippi again than New Orleans to Galveston. I do think it will get much better once we pass the Calcasieu Lock.

Sunrise this morning.

Mess after pulling up four anchors.