The Great Loop

This web site is an attempt to provide a quick and easy way for our family and freinds to keep up with us on "The Loop"

The Great Loop is a 6000 mile jouney down the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee Waterway to Mobile, Alabama. From there around the coast of Florida via Key West with a side trip to the Bahamas. Back to the coast of Florida we head up the east coast to the Chesapeake Bay. From the Chesapeake we continue up the east coast through New York Harbour, up the Hudon River, and across the Erie Canal. Through a series of canals we go across Lake Ontario into Canada. We will spend a month in Canada. Back to the US, we will cross Lake Michigan to Chicago. Following the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Cumberland Rivers back to Tennesse.


LOOP CLOSED: 8/12/09: 310 days, 6170 miles, 107 locks, 3 countries, 16 states, 85 different marinas, 10,050 gallons of diesel fuel, thousands of photos, countless new friends, and priceless memories...

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Peoria, IL

Don and I left Ottawa about 8:30 today for about a 70 mile run. Don's wife, Michelle, waves good-bye as we depart with great weather.


This is the development taking place at Heritage Harbor where we left from today.

The Illinois River begins to widen...

Starved Rock State Park...

We missed the lock by 15 minutes and had to wait for 2 hours. We were lucky with the wait, some talked about waiting 5 hours.

Don makes for great crew, not quite as experienced as Lynn after her 77 locks!

Did this guy miss a mark??

Sunday afternoon party time...


Classic boat at the IVY Club...

We stopped for the night at the IVY Club (Illinois Valley Yacht Club). Great facility, $1.00 per ft and $2.50 for diesel fuel.

Great facility with bar and dining room. Fried chicken buffet for dinner.






Too bad we don't have more time to enjoy the IVY Club. We'll see how the first lock goes tomorrow and decide if we do 50 miles or 170, not much in between.
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