Orange to Intercoastal City

October 25 Leaving Orange
Lizzy, Hannahs friend from Orange, came down to see us off, Davids windless worked perfectly, as I would expect from a master electrician.  We passed Honeywell early in the morning, and called Mrs Rachael to say hello to the Honeywell clan.  Planning to go to Bayou Lacassine tongiht, we had to wait about an hour for the Ellender lift bridge where another boat the Texas Dreamer, a 37' cat, was waiting too.  One of the two of us managed to get cussed out by a couple of barges. 

We started to try to anchor at Bayou Choupique, but it was blowing about 25, and if we had gone aground, we would not have been able to recover from it.  So we pressed on, following Texas Dreamer throught the lockes and bridges.  We tried Bayou Lacassine, same story as the last one, too shallow.  The sun went down, and I do not ever remember so much darkness.  We could not see past the bow, all we could do is look at the sides of the ditch and hope there was nothing in front of us.  We motored on, finding our way into the Choupique River where we anchored in total darkness.  About a half an hour later, the moon came up. It was quite nice even though it was still blowing over 20 knots.

October 26  On to Intercoastal City
I last checked the achor at about 4 am, and everything was fine, but we were aground in the morning.  I think it was a tide thing because we were in the same place as before from all of our bearings we took the night before.  The day was extremely windy again, but pretty uneventful.  Made it to Shell Morgan landing and fueled up.  Managed to dock on the windward finger to get fuel and moved around and dock on the leward side, with a 25 knot cross wind, without a scrach.  AAAAAHHHHH AC, power.  Changed the oil and the fuel filter, and a great night with AC.

October 22-23 Morgan City

Had our first rain of the trip over night in Morgan City.. it cleaned up the boat well, and the temperature dropped like a rock.  We did some chores, laundry, etc.



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