It was a peaceful night at anchor in David Lake. It is Saturday though, so the fishermen were up early. We lifted anchor about 15 minutes before our usual seven o'clock this morning. We stuck with almost the same pattern as yesterday as far as the tows go. We got most of them out of the way at the same time. At some point the up bound tows, "Gordon A. Keenan" and "Wilsey Dupre" were waiting at a good spot in the river for the down bound tow "Keith Gelvin" to pass safely. That's when we took our opportunity to overtake the up bound tows and then pass the down bound tow. No problems.
It was almost the end of our long day when we caught up to "Richard Taylor", another up bound tow. At that point we decided it was just easier to stay behind him and not get in his way just to pull into our anchorage at Old Lock #1. We had heard that this anchorage was silting in. That seemed to be true. The depth gauge sure had us nervous, but sticking it showed about five feet of water. Hopefully the water level will not drop much overnight.
After 62 miles in just over 11 hours, we were all ready for our ritual of making hobo pies and s'mores over a campfire. It was so hot today though that we decided maybe we would just make a fire in the grills at the park. We barely got our stuff set down on the picnic table when we decided there were just too many bugs. It was not going to be fun. So we gave our paper we saved for making a fire to the campers that looked miserable fighting the bugs and headed back to the boat. We could just grill sandwiches on the stove top in the air conditioning. S'mores in the microwave always work in a pinch too.
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