Tuesday - September 21, 2010

Lat 40 41 29; long 089 35 28; Eng 343.18; 157 gal
We left Peoria with Lazy Dolphin about 7:00 am. Our intention was to travel to Tall Timbers and stay there. Lazy Dolphin wanted to travel further and kept on moving along.

This stretch of the river was quite pretty and peaceful. Got to the Peoria Lock and went right in. I understand the rest of the group had to wait some time before being allowed to enter, since commercial traffic always has right of way. In fact as we left the lock there was a huge tow right in front of the lock and we were looking at at wall of steel as we exited.

We arrived at Tall Timbers about 12:30 pm where the marina owner was awaiting us. We were put into a tight corner of the marina. The marina itself was quite nice. The marina owner left go to his other job and left me with the information where the other loopers were to go when they arrived later in the afternoon. Essentially, I was dockmaster. When the other boats arrived, we got them tied up. Went into town but there was little in the way of shops or stores.

Huge thunderstorm that night with lots of lightening. Matter of fact it was a great light show.