Well, we're in Demopolis Yacht Basin for the second day. Only intended to spend one...but we can't get refueled! There's so much trash behind the fuel dock where they let PC's fill up. The river side of the dock is for tows only...safety concerns. They have a broken down tow boat sitting at the dock now and have ordered parts for it. Parts should be here tomorrow...then they have to fix the boat. Then they can use it to disperse all the trash by using the boat's prop wash. Oh. And it could get spread out when the wind direction changes to the north, as they expect will happen this coming weekend. Wayne is walking over now to talk with the owner of the marina to see what's what.
Wayne's even considering buying fuel cans and
bringing diesel from local gas station. Trouble is...they won't
allow fuel to be brought into the marina from outside. We'd
have to anchor near the town landing...dinghy ashore with cans...walk
to station for fuel and back. With two five gallon cans we
figure it would take six trips (Wayne figures we need an extra 60
gallons of fuel to get to Columbus, MS, considering we'll be going
upstream.
And here's the rest of the story: The owner, Fred Hansard, met Wayne as he was walking to the dock this morning. They had managed to clear out a little of the debris and Fred said we could probably get in there now...but do it quickly before debris came back.
We unplugged, left the slip, and refueled. Whew! Then we decided to spend another day here to settle down and relax...which we have done. Tomorrow we'll resume our journey north. The "norther" the better, since it's going to be 88 degrees in Demopolis tomorrow.
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