We started out the week with renting a car to drive to Alton, IL and get Amy's car. That gets it closer, gets us the ability to explore on land, plus we can take Amy's parents back to their car if we cannot leave before they run out of meds. Water was amazingly high in Alton, only 3 ft from the parking lot... I doubt it will get much higher, but another good reason to get the car moved :)
Amy's dad and I went out in the dinghy and did a little fishing. We got one small channel cat, and about a 8-10lb blue cat. We have them cleaned, probably won't get around to frying them up until Sunday.
Friday was exploring day. Amy's dad and I had done some already, and took the ladies to some nice places. We started with a park at the top of the hill heading into town. Beautiful river views, plus the statue of Chief Keokuk, from whom the town gets it's name.
From there we explored the town of Nauvoo, IL. I guess the Mormons settled here first before moving on out west. We got a couple pics and a video fairly close up of a bald eagle at the river's edge.
We then ventured on to Baxter's Vinyards and Winery! Had a great tasting, and picked up 6 bottles... 4 of what was all 4 of our favorites... Blackberry! 2 bottles got consumed aboard over card games the next couple nights!
We did some more fishing on Sunday morning, catching a small flathead, a small blue, and 3 smaller fiddlers. Enough for a meal. So Sunday we fried up the most recent catch and froze the catch from earlier in the week.
We wrapped up the week with some fishing in one of the nearby creeks, but didn't come up with anything big enough to keep. Amy's dad and I also installed new shocks for the trim tabs on the dinghy. They came in on Sat, but we didn't want to tie up KYC's life during the weekend.
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