Left our new Marinette friends at Nu Plaza Yacht Club around 8am. It was beautiful blue sky, puffy cloud, low humidity day.....yay. The winds were blowing pretty strong though and made for a bit if a bumpy ride at times. One 5 mile long and very wide straight away it was white capping and about 2ft waves.....thought we may have made it around to the great lakes 😋. Made a quick stop at Mt Vernon Indiana (cute little town) to give Toby a potty and tummy break. We forged forward at a good clip and reached John T Myers lock where we only had to wait a few moments to get in and down. Just outside that lock the confluence of the Wabash River/Ohio River signified that we had made it to Illinois . The landscape almost immediately changed from what we had been seeing most all of the trip this far. Right after the Wabash came in there were a bunch of beautiful Sandy beaches. Then, after just a couple miles the banks began to have large boulders and then cliffs. Very pretty! We then came to 'Cave In Rock' This is a very cool cliff area with a large cave in it at the shoreline. Unfortunately , there were
no docks or ways for is to access it easily without leaving Toby on the boat. So, a few pics from the river will have to do.
We then moved on downriver to Elizabethtown Illinois (aka E town). Here we had read and heard that they have a floating restaraunt with the BEST Catfish on the Ohio River.
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