We made it out of New Orleans today and got as far as Half Moon Island. If you were to draw a straight line north from here you'd be in Mississippi but from the map it looks like we're still in Louisiana. We would have made it farther but we stopped and anchored at Rabbit Island for a couple of hours to let a thunderstorm pass and have lunch. Rabbit Island is just about where the Pearl River that divides Louisiana and Mississippi flows into Lake Borgne and the Mississippi Sound.
Half Moon Island is uninhabited and not much more than 3 feet high at the highest point. To have enough water we anchored about 200 yards off shore so it's a bit of rocking and rolling when the wind comes up. Like it is now as it seems another thunderstorm might be coming our way.
We are finally on some open water today where we could have sailed if the wind would cooperate, which it didn't. Hopefully tomorrow. It looks like our stop tomorrow night will be somewhere around Biloxi Mississippi.
I've finally done a truly short post.
Take care.
Brian
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