Evansville, IN to Grand Rivers, KY

Total Miles Traveled 2235

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We had a great time visiting with family and friends at the Nu Plaza Marina in Evansville, Indiana.  We stayed a few days past our original departure date due to a cold front passing through with wind and rain……if its not fun, we don’t go.

I tried to get a good rainbow picture, but we just didn’t have the right angle.

On September 22^nd we traveled 90 miles to Elizabethtown, Illinois and stayed at the E-Town restaurant.  We had a pretty good push from the downstream river current and was trying to stay ahead of wrap around rain showers from the cold front that passed through.  Unfortunately, we didn’t make it as we approached Mount Vernon, Indiana we had 15 mph wind and the rain caught up with us.  Mount Vernon is a very commercial river port with a lot of barge and tow activity.  Not a good place to encounter rain and fog. 

By the way, the catfish nuggets were awesome, but we stopped here on the way up in June, so we’ve had our quota of Ohio River mercury and who knows what other contaminants that lurk beneath the surface of the river.

Ferry crossing near Cave in Rock, IL

We departed the restaurant dock at daybreak on September 23^rd and passed through the Smithland Lock making 10 mph down the Ohio River until we reached the Cumberland River.  When we entered mile 0 of the Cumberland River we dropped to 4.5 mph, Barkley and Kentucky Lake was above normal pool for this time of year and they were dumping a lot of water out of the dam.  We bumped up the engines rpm but still only averaged around 5 mph for the 30 miles to the lock. 

After lifting us 57 feet in the lock, we entered Barkley Lake near Grand Rivers Kentucky and anchored in Double Creek, just past the lock.  We had reservations at our home port at Green Turtle Bay Marina on the 24^th so we decided to spend one last night on the hook.

We had a great time this summer exploring the Ohio, Allegheny, Monongahela Rivers, and all the small river towns and big cities along the way.  We traveled 2235 miles since leaving Green Turtle Bay June 23^rd making our 20-21 cruising miles total 5264 miles since departing here October 5^th, 2020 for Florida.

We will stay here a couple of weeks before heading south around the second week of October.