Day 6 Intracoastal City to Morgan City, LA

     We left the dock this morning at Morgan's Landing at 7:30 am and headed to Morgan City, LA which is a 65 mile trek. There are no locks or bridges that will require an opening on the forecast for today, and the weather is suppose to be superb! 

     All in all, the scenery today was pretty much a repeat of yesterday - not very exciting... So, I will continue to add more pictures of "interesting" things that we passed on the water.

  We saw this jack-up crane barge, and for a self-propelled barge, it was moving quite fast. Judging from the fresh paint and lack of rust on the legs, this barge had been in the yard for cleaning/painting quite recently.








    We passed the towboat Freedom, which is pretty much a normal towboat, but it represents the third "Freedom" that we have passed (a cruise ship and a vehicle carrying ship on Day 1 were the others). At this rate I wonder how many more Freedoms we will pass.









     In the waterway we continued to encounter more and bigger clumps of water hyacinths that have broken loose and were drifting with the wind and current. Some of them are undoubtedly cut loose by the propellers of fishing boats in the side channels, which are often overgrown by these plants. We do not view them as much of a hazard to us. However, the larger "islands" could easily conceal a good sized log, which would definitely be a hazard. Another way that they could break loose is during flooding. When Admiral Terry called for a reservation on the Morgan City wall, she was told that it was closed due to both construction and flooding. It seems that the river is 0.7 feet above flood stage (and 6.7 feet above normal), and that is enough to cause some water over the docks and mandate the closing of the floor doors through the levee. That's the bad news, and the good news is that the Berwick Landing mooring wall across the river is open and still above water.


     We arrived at Berwick Landing about 4:15 pm after a wonderful day on the water. The next photo shows Lucky Us moored to the wall at Berwick Landing. There is no electric service here, but we can run the generator if we need air conditioning, which seems doubtful. The photo was taken at dusk and Lucky Us is partially lit by the lights in the park here. The park including the wooden boardwalk is at least a quarter mile long and was very clean and neat.





    At the North (up river) end of the park there are two different high, fixed, highway bridges over the river. At the base of the first bridge is this picturesque lighthouse that originally served in this part of the river. Many of the lighthouses in Texas and elsewhere on the northern Gulf Coast are often round, made of cast iron and sit directly on the ground. So, this elevated, lighthouse is not only beautiful but is also distinctively different in style.











     The last photo for the day is one of the large shallow coastal drill barges. It was moored on the north side of the two bridges. This rig would be towed into shallow, back water swamps often along specially dug channels to drill for oil and/or gas.


     Time to walk Lucky for one last time today and then get some much needed sleep. See ya tomorrow...