Day 10 Alligator -the other white meat

     We depated from the anchorage about 8:30 am.  Very good anchorage with excellent holding (mud bottom). The strong down river current continued the whole time that we were there with no reversal during incoming/high tide. After an hour we started through Morgan City, LA with miles of shipyards, oil field fabrication, etc. For most of today's trip, we encountered varying amounts of floating (pieces of) water Lillies that had been cut loose by currents and boat propellors.

Some of the clumps were big and high enough to look like little islands, and a few of these also contained good sized pieces of wood.
The plants themselves presented little problem, except we wanted to avoid sucking them into the raw water intakes for the engine cooling system.  That could cause an engine to overheat and... Well, you get the picture - it would become very expensive very quickly.
     We had a U.S Customs and Border Patrol boat pull along side and ask some questions over the radio. I guess that we "passed the test" since they did not board for an inspection. After a few questions, they wished us a good trip and went off at a high rate of speed.
     We arrived in Houma, LA at their city dock around 2:30 pm. Son Bob e-mailed two recommendations for dinner that he had gotten from oil company co-workers that had lived here.  We chose Big Al's, and we went there on our electric scooters. Great seafood(!) in a family atmosphere.  I had an alligator por-boy, which was my second adventure with gator meat. I think that it tastes a lot like chicken...

The Admiral and I had our picture taken with this artistic rendition of Big Al. We are spending the night at the Houma City Marina, which connects with the Intracoastal Waterway and is only a couple of blocks from the "old" downtown. Nice stop!

     Tomorrow we are off to Nawlins for three nights.  Should be fun.