Day 137 anchoring at Little Diversion

Started out early in the chilly morning dew with a touch of Mississippi River fog. More tows than we've ever passed and lots of debris in the water. Some of the tugs threw some pretty big wakes. The biggest one was pushing 35 barges. We decided to do a 110 mile day and get to an anchorage in the Little Diversion River, a popular spot for Loopers. El Nido, Bob and Duncan, our newly acquired friends, traveled with us all day then shared our dinner of home-made sausages from Alton. Jack taunted Duncan from our back deck after El Nido rafted to us for the night. Duncan is in pic 4 - the sweetest husky/lab mix that I'm sure my daughters would love. The scenery was much improved today - beautiful green rolling hills, large rocks, high cliffs, sandy beaches then an occasional mining area. The weather was again perfect. We have one more day of Indian Summer then a front moves through bringing fall back to the Mississippi. (Happiest birthday to our sweet baby #3)