Oct 2-3 Completing the passage

We pulled the anchor early in order to finish our journey on the Mississippi and start up the Ohio river. The current on the Ohio was against us and slowed us down quite a bit. The first pic shows us at the confluence of the Mississippi river and the Ohio river. We were able to anchor on the Ohio river above Lock 53 for the night. We took the dinghy ashore and hiked along the riverbanks for daily exercise. That night, we were rocked by the wakes caused by passing tow barges, as dishes and glasses were rattling around in the boat. The next morning we got underway late—the warm days and cold nights created heavy fog in the morning.


The next pic shows lock workers building the lock with wickets.  When the river flow is high, they take the wickets down and lay them flat on the river bottom, then all boats float over them.  When the river flow is under 15 feet, the raise up the wickets (one by one) to create the dam and boats then have to lock through. We lumbered up the Ohio river to the confluence where the Cumberland River and the Ohio meet. There we anchored in a perfect location, peaceful and where no tow barges would create wakes. We were still 3 of us travelling together through this passage and we took the dinghy to visit our neighboring boat and had dinner. But just before that, we went ashore for a hike. The dinghy motor stirred up the Asian carp and a large fish flew into the dinghy and landed right in front of Christine. I never heard her blast out such a cry of panic since we have been together. The next pic shows the anchorage at Cumberland Towhead Island.