Heading out of Wheeler

 2023 Fall Rendezvous Photo!

Well here we are, well before sunrise, prepping to pull out and lock through Wheeler lock with 11 other boats.

 

 After getting through a call to Wilson lock amounted to knowing we would have a good wait, so we just idled the 14 miles and floated the last 3 😆

Unfortunately the delay at Wilson was long enough that the second flotilla caught up with us, adding 8 more for a total of 20. If that's not a big enough group, we had 10 bass boats wanting a ride down as well.

Now we sure thought we had a full lock, however the lockmaster took a couple pics from above as we went down... not as full as we felt.

After all that fun, many pulled into Florence, but 5 of us pushed on. We got into the Rock Pile anchorage just as dark was setting in real good. Sat morning I put the dinghy down and got some nice shots of our raft! 

We were the anchor boat so we were last to pull out, around 0900. Headed for Pickwick State Park for our fall fill-up. 368 gallons later we were off to lock down at Pickwick. Had to stand, the fuel at $4.50/gallon left me unable to sit comfortably!

The Perch snapped our picture on the way.

It was nice to have the chamber to ourselves after yesterday!

We pulled in to Wolf island anchorage, as we just didn't have time to make Swallow Bluff Island. We can still make it back in one day with an early start.

Out on the river by 0600

Delivery boat

Arriva upbound!

Bandit upbound... but where is the Snowman???

At Last II upbound.

Current Plan upbound :)

We got in to Cuba Landing about 1500, got the mast down and settled in the slip. Now off to pack for the trip to Florida with Seaz The Day. I will link the daily Facebook posts in the next entry :)