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Today we stayed at the dock and awaited the upcoming storms.  Decided to go out for a late breakfast at The Pit Stop.  We both had Chicken and Sausage Gumbo with a side of Potato Salad and Rice.  That’s how it is served in Cajun country.  Yum

  
We did get a lot of wind and rain, the worst of the weather was northwest and east of us.  They had tornados by Baton Rouge and in the New Orleans area which is about 40 miles away from us so we felt lucky.  Wednesday is supposed to be windy with winds in the 25 mph range so I think we are going to sit in Houma an extra day and explore Houma since the rain is gone.

Had a wet and windy run to Houma yesterday.  When we pulled into the Houma City Marina their were 4 other boats tied to the dock, a big boat from Florida and 3 sailboats from Kemah Texas.  They are a group of friends from Arizona and Colorodo who recently purchased their boats and are going to the Florida Keys.

   
 
We ago going to spend the day in Houma because a big weather system is going to move in this afternoon bringing high winds and rain.  Probibly plan on staying in Houma Wednesday too before moving on to New Orleans.

Left the Golden Nugget docks at 6:30 to get an early start only to be held up for an hour wait, to go thru the Calcasieu Locks. 

 

We radioed the Black Bayou Pontoon Bridge and the Grand Lake Pontgoon Bridge and both opened with no wait time.  The Leland Bowman Lock opened for us when we arrived so no wait time.  Bringing our boat back from Madisonville we had to wait 2 hours to get thru.  Made it to Shell Morgan by 5:00 and pulled up to the fuel dock to get fuel so we could get an early start but they were closed since it was Sunday.  Hum I guess this retirement is starting to work because Ray and I did not know what day it was. 

 Got up early only to watch it rain, so we waited for the rain to stop to get fuel, Diesel is $1.43 a gallon at Shell Morgan.  The fog this morning is about an 1/8 mile so we are heading out loving our radar. 

 

Long day arriving at the Gold Nugget around 8:30.  A fair amount of barge traffic along the way. 

 
Still dealing with the house battery’s not charging enough or charging period on the engines alone.  We are running the generator and using the battery charger to charge the house batterys and are having no issues.  Good news is we are running the ice maker since we have the generator on.

We got up and 5:00 and did engine checks and we’re off the dock at 6:30.  We are waiting at the Calcasieu Locks now, a east bound barge just went in front of us and we have to wait on a west bound barge and then it will be our turn.