We have two days of travel to get from Goose Pond to Joe Wheeler where we would like to be on Saturday. Fred has spent long hours looking at weather maps and reading forecasts trying to decide which two days we should travel. Both Wednesday and Thursday are calling for cool temperatures, possible showers and lots of wind. We finally decide that Wednesday is the better day (the wind gusts are only suppose to be 25mph instead of the 30mph planned for Thursday). We got an early start under very cloudy skies and very cool temperatures. The day reminded me of many of our final trips of a boating season going up the Saginaw River to the marina to have the boat hauled out. We had on our heavy coats, gloves and as the day progressed we both put on long underwear under our jeans. It was windy as predicted and we actually had small waves and white caps – pretty unusual when boating in a river. Fred has become very proficient at the helm – in spite of the wind today he had no issues even though he had to “dock” three times – once in the lock, once at the gas dock and finally into our slip.
Miles: 38.7 Bridges: 1 Locks: 1
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| truly a fall day - gray sky, gray water, misty hills |
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| still waiting for more fall colors |
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| our favorite - a rock bluff high above the river |
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