Better Days Ahead
13-OCT-2020 Tuesday – Pleasant Creek Recreational Area, Belleve, IA (~UMR mile 553) to Rock River, Rock Island, IL (~UMR mile 479) 64.3 nautical miles (74.0 statute miles)
41°28’56.6″N 90°36’52.0″W
41.482390, -90.614445
Elevation: 550 feet
Total Elevation Change: -40 feet
Locks (3)
Mississippi River Lock 13 – mile 522, above Fulton, IL and Clinton, IA
Mississippi River Lock 14 – mile 493, LeClaire, IA
Mississippi River Lock 15 – mile 483, Rock Island, IL and Davenport, IA
States (2)
Iowa, Illinois
Good Morning!
Sometime during the night the wind died down and we awoke to beautiful calm, but nippy morning.
sunrise
How did I miss it? Yesterday was Columbus Day (I prefer Indigenous People Day) and also known as Thanksgiving by our Canadian friends. Happy Thanksgiving Canada!
Better Days Ahead
Beautiful sun rise but it was a tough morning. We awoke to a train and ate the last 2 pieces of the crack bread
Costco! Costco! Where art though?
Today was brutal. Straight into the sun all day long. All the wind blowing south yesterday turned around and blew north today. We had 2-3 foot wave coming at us for part of the day. The combination of wind and waves was strong enough to send spray into the upper helm. It’s a stinking river! Not a lake! Where did these waves come from! Dale got cranky. He hates the wind.
Mary got cranky. The last sound of the day was a train.
Along the Way
End of summer for acres of aquatic plants (water lilies?) at season end near Gomers Lake statue mile 527.
Now that the weekend is over we’ve pretty much had the river to ourselves except for the commercial traffic.
Traffic at the lock. We dropped anchor for about an hour 
check out the wheel house 
Fulton, IL 
rear view mirror
Judging from the houses along the river, Pool 13 must flood frequently. They are all on stilts.
new construction
Camanche, IA river scaping
nice steps. neighbor is taking advantage of low water and river scraping 
Little houses little docks compared to what you see in Florida 
another nice dock
Parts of today’s section of the Mississippi River was industrial. Too uninteresting for pictures. I did take one…
this would be a cool water slide
They are building a new bridge Moline, IA. They were working on the first span in 2019 when we came through http://yesdear.life/?p=13668 Wonder if they are working today due to the high winds.
Davenport IA. Childhood home of our out good friend Red Gallagher http://redgallagher.com/
The Davenport Sky Bridge
Good Night
LOL. We are coincidentally in the same anchorage we were when we returned to Minnesota from out Gold Loop (2018/2019) Aug 29, 2019 Thursday.
I’m thankful that the wind finally laid down around 8:00pm.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Wow. Davenport is a historically happening spot. Here’s a few ditties.
Between Davenport and Rock Island is Arsenal Island, which houses the Rock Island Arsenal, the largest government-owned weapons manufacturer in the entire United States.
Walt Disney applied for his first job in Davenport, IA… he was turned down.
Davenport is the birthplace of Chiropractic. B.J. Palmer, founder of Chiropractics, performed the first spinal adjustment on September 10, 1895.
Cigar manufacturing was the major industry to employ women workers at the turn-of-the-century in Davenport
Vermont born blacksmith, John Deere, began making his self- scouringsteel plows in Moline in 1847. He was soon producing 1,000 plows annually.