Seas: calm; TTT: 4:20 hrs)
The huge flat building behind us is actually a floating casino. The three storey building was built on a barge evidently to get around some rules about gambling. It is quite impressive but the rest of the area is much less so.
I tried the Wayne method of earning some extra cash and it seemed to work for about 20 minutes. My $1 investment in a penny machine got all the way up to $38 but... much to Linda's chagrin it was gone by the time we had to meet the others for dinner. You can tell that we are not gamblers by our excitement, and disappointment, with $38. I may have to try again.
On an even more depressing note, we are getting very concerned with the water levels on the rivers and in particular the Mississippi River. There is not enough water in the usual anchorages to get off the river and spend the night. This is especially true of the ole Miss' as one needs to spend at least 2 nights at anchor because there are no marinas in a 160 mile stretch. Other marinas on the other rivers have insufficient depth to enter the harbors and many of their slips. We are not sure what we are going to do if the situation gets worse. We will keep you posted... in the meantime we will hope for rain.
We will be leaving our friends from "downunder" but we did get in one final barbie complete with shrimp and steaks and some "chardy". Did you ever notice that the Aussie's take a lot of short cuts: "chardy" for Chardonnay; "Uni" for university, "Abos" for Aboriginals, etc. It was fun and I do hope that we run together again.
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| Phred and Candy, there are floating homes then there are FLOATING HOMES. |
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| The Casino only needs 10 feet of water. |
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| Hammond is a rather large Marina. |
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