Coming back from checking out the County Park trails

Look at MB.. the little boat on the left side of arch

Closest bridge is the Chain of Rocks bridge. Served at Route 66 over Mississippi River from 1936-65

First lock we were allowed to drift in. Six all bunched up in front playing bumper boats.

Welcome to Missouri !!

October 6, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F

We left the Alton Marina this morning with a herd of seven other boats and did two locks with them before we slowed to enjoy the ride thru St. Louis. There’s a EarthCam that points to the St. Louis Arch so I pulled a picture off of it… But we had to turn and do a second pass because our initial pass had us squarely in the railing on whatever platform the EarthCam was mounted on. This evening we are at anchor in a wing off Cliff Cave County Park. Moki and I went.. we did not see any caves but it’s a large park. Wings BTW are rock jetties designed to slow sand movement. The river is low enough that they are well above water and anchoring between them gets us out of the main river and out of the current which is pretty strong. Beyond that we’ve been pretty preoccupied keeping an eye on Milton. Hard watching from afar. Going down into the 40s tonight. 41 miles today.Read more