The cane is still growing,
the chili is heating up, along with the air.
This is jump-starting the weather,
and fast-moving winds brings buckets of unforecasted rain. This rain, not predicted, dropped the temperature 20 degrees in fewer than 20 minutes!
Alligator patrols, by mostly submerged A. mississippiensis, never stop.
You know what they say about “red in morning…”
sailor take warning, I’ll add [and gators come swarming.]
All that has postponed our leaving in the way in the way I anticipated.
Enjoy views of the vessel above the water, and from
below.
Hope springs.
And how did I get out of the bayou this time? With a toast. The JT Meleck I’ll have to try another time.
I got out by plane.
Google a St James LA map and you’ll see exactly where we crossed the Mississippi heading back NE.
After some delays, this series will be continued, even if I need to do it this way.
All photos, WVD, who’s happy to be out of the heat dome.
tugster: a waterblog 
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June 28, 2022 at 12:46 pm
vivian
Yes, the old adage ”when you’re up to your arse in alligators, it is important to remember that the first job was to drain the swamp.” Or words to that effect. Up on the Spatsizi Plateau the wild life would frolic on the runway so we had to get the airport manager to run off the Moose, black bears, grizzly bear aka Rufus, and Martins before we could taxi down the runway and lift off to get home. And When we entered the Vancouver south terminal people would sniff audibly, and look up in surprise as 30 of us swept through the terminal smelling like a forest fire. We had lived in bunkhouses with airtight wood stoves and we smelt like a house of lox, no bagel!. I learned to bring an extra set of clothes to camp, wrapped in an air proof bag just for putting on just before we climbed onto the crummy to ride to the airport.
June 28, 2022 at 2:27 pm
tugster
Thx, Viv. Keeping a change of clothes in a sealed plastic bag . . . that’s pretty vivid. Also, I needed to look up where the Spatsizi plateau is located: it’s just 9 degrees south of the Arctic Circle.