December 12, 2013 Ingram Bayou Anchorage

Thursday:  Got going about 10:00 after putting on 300 gallons of diesel at $3.61 per gallon, pretty fair price.  Mobile Bay was windy and wavy again, like the other day.  We had 3 footers coming at us on our stern.  After we got past the first way point it calmed down some.  When we got to the GIWW at Red 120 we immediately met two tows very close to each other; they were going west and we were going east.  Also going west was a Sport Fisherman and he felt he had to pass both tows even though we were in the same, very narrow, and shallow channel.  We ended up slowing way down and were almost out of the channel in very skinny water (only about a foot under our props) so this fisherman could pass.  Why he couldn’t have waited until we were past we will never know.  That just confirms what we already knew about Sport Fisherman.

It was a beautiful, sunny, 65 degree day, but the wind made it feel some what cold.  We got to our anchorage by 15:00.  Ingram Bayou is one of our favorite anchorages, so beautiful and peaceful.  We passed a total of 3 tows and traveled 45 miles for the day.  Keith saw the first dauphin of the trip but I haven’t seen any as yet.

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CO’s comments:    Forgot to tell you yesterday about the guy in the 40' boat.  His Danforth anchor was so bent out of shape he couldn't or didn't pull it all the way up and it was dangling and hitting his bow all they way through Mobile Bay.  He had battery problems and a hard time starting his engines and was at Dog River, a very good maintenance facility, and didn't do anything about it.  Instead he was headed to New Orleans, Good Luck.  By the way, downtown Mobile is a "slow zone".

12-12-2013 Waves on Mobile Bay

12-12-2013 The Tow, St. Elmo, at about Mile 150 on the GIWW, first time we have encountered one in this area.

12-12-2013 Ingram Bayou anchorage, Mile 164.0

12-12-2013 Eagle perched in a tree by our anchorage