Sunset!!!

The sunset was spectacular! Perfect river running conditions...glassy water, breathless air as we cruised at 13mph to the deep south sounds of the New Orleans CD Nanci had got for Bobby's birthday.

Our nav lights are a problem. The dullest whisper of light. We entered Savanna IL at around 9pm with the aid of a handheld searchlight.

We tied up at a smelly slip in sight of a BP where we refilled our tanks and order two supremes from Pizza Hut. Bobby was unfurling our chiffon-like mosquito netting enclosing the lower deck. By the time we had finished eating three trains had thundered past! Bobby wanted to move the boat to the other side of the river, but we were all too knackered by that stage.

Pretty humerous episode pitching the tent on the roof. It juuuusssttt fit provided we didn't want to get around to the other side. Bobby & I in the tent and the Botsfords in hammocks below.

Distance covered 97 miles.