Sunday 1/19/2014
We have left Louisiana behind us. We had some of the coldest weather we have yet to encounter and both of us have colds, and bumps and bruises, but warm weather here we come.
We did get a chance to travel around New Orleans. It is a city on the mend, with the scars of Katrina visible everywhere. We were jolted over washboard city streets, drove by abandoned destroyed neighborhoods to find beautiful new brick houses all build with flood basements or stilts. On the ICW again we past barges filled with wreckage and abandoned rusted out structures. Our cab drivers both commented that they knew it would happen again. There are new levees, and embankments, but one of the news stories, residents were taking the city and government to court because they evacuated the levee workers just before Katrina. It does seem to contradict all the construction if no one is there to operate the system.
We traveled east through flat marsh land with few signs of any one but the occasional fishermen or barges. We stopped for the night at a place called Rabbit Island, just west of the Mississippi border. When we raised anchor we discovered a black goo, coating our anchor and chain.
We arrived in Gulfport at the Small Craft Harbor. This is a city Marina that is very nice.... we were here last June. It seems that we are doomed to have a Mutt and Jeff show at the fuel dock. Again we fought wind and shallows to finally get tied up and the attendant commented that they had no diesel fuel. Now we did call, and radio that we needed Diesel fuel and no one mentioned they did not have any... oh well maybe when we leave.
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| have no idea what this once was |
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| View to the Gulf from our Anchor site off Rabbit Island |
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| Old rail road bridge looks beautiful in the early sun rise |
We are here until Wednesday. I have ordered an Electric blanket from Amazon. They draw less power than our portable heaters and more efficient for sleeping. I also have been using the new version app of Charts&Tides that Active Captain recommended. One of the many problems traveling along the gulf is out of date information. This new App lets me update markers as we go with the latest information. If we return I will have current information, and anyone following us will have access to the latest info.
For now we have sun and 50+ degrees.
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| We let the tugs win today. We saw some pushing (moving) 8 or more barges. |
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| a yacht manufacturing facility. |
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| Danzinger Lift bridge... I love listening to the Tug captains call in to the bridge operator. One asked "darlin, can you open your Bridge just a tad and I will scoot on by." |
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| L and N or Almonaster bridge, cool looking tinker toy look |
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| Michoud Canal Levees |
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| Michoud Canal Levees |
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