The Sunny side of the street 31◦34'.518 N 088◦0'.136 W

Alligators like the sunny side of the river bank.  Those of you who know me well, know that I always

think in songs. It stands to reason that the song that came to mind is "Sunny side of the street". It became a brain worm and I could not get it out, without first singing the whole song out loud on the deck. Fortunately our partner boats engines drowned out my singing so they did not have to listen to it.

Jim became obsessed with spotting the alligators, so he spent the cruising time with binoculars scanning the river bank. We spotted a total of 5 gators. The only problem was that "Priorities" was the lead boat today and every time they past a gator on the banks sunning themselves, they would scurry into the water, so we could only get pictures of the gators in the water.

The next picture is an alligator actually swimming by the bow of our boat while we were anchored. He looks big but he was only about 3-4 feet long baby gator.

 This has been a hot day, 85◦F outside and up to 114◦F inside the helm. The alligators where not the only ones sunning themselves.  In my defense, singing does wear you out!

We stopped at mile marker 100 in what is called old lock #1 cut-off. Jim and I went for a walk along the road leading to the lock and checked out the old lock.

This particular lock was decommissioned and replaced with a newer lock on the main river.

The anchorage is fantastic but the way in was a bit scary. The channel is really narrow and someone decided this was a good place to park their broken pontoon boat.

The entrance also has a sandbar and was only 4-5 feet deep. We draw 4'6" of water. We all made it in without hurting anything, but we did scrap bottom going over that sandbar. Fortunately this is low tide, by the morning there will be an extra foot of water there so we should not scrape on the way out.  

Tomorrow we are hoping to make it another 60 miles or so to another anchorage. Hopefully we have another beautiful day like today. Now that I have you all humming the song, it is time to say good night.