Home to Marietta
55 miles traveled
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Day one of Summer vacation trip was wonderful! We cast off from home at high noon on the hot and sunny day. We had a relaxing cruise down the Muskingum. Renee is so proud that I am finally starting to realize we no longer own a runabout boat that's intended to zip around on the water. The leisurley10mph pace was just enough to keep the air moving to cool things off.
There was still quite a bit of floaties coming down the river with us (remnants from the heavy rain and high water levels of late last week), but not to bad. We reached a milestone in our Muskingum River Waterway travels when we successfully navigated Luke Chute without any of the usual disturbing noises we've grown so accustomed to (props hitting rock)! Yay :-) The recon tubing trip through the channel last week paid off.
Further down the river we had two bald eagle encounters; always exilerating to see these beautiful birds. One day I hope to have one of those fancy cameras with the 4ft long lenses and quick enough hands to get a great picture of one. If nothing else, I'll look cool holding the camera.
After settling in at the Marietta Boat Club at about 7:30pm, we grilled out some beans and burgers to satisfy our grumbling tummies. We were both pretty tired, but not so much as to not have our ritualistic nightly cup of coffee on the aft deck. Capped off day one by hooking up the laptop to the TV and watching the first half hour of a DVD movie we brought along.....maybe by about night 6 we will have enough energy to watch the rest :-) River life is rough....aha....I think we're up for the challenge though!
Later this morning, bring on the Mighty Ohio! But....not till after we make up some blueberry hotcackes; gotta go heat the griddle!
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