For one, I can't crawl down inside the aft locker to work on the leaking engine exhaust hose. Susan, unfortunately for her, is not too tall for that task. And today was her lucky day as she got to do it twice. Once this morning with some fantastic stuff called Fiber Fix (thank you Paul Wiley for the gift). The location of the leak made it impossible to get it completely covered but we could tell it would have worked if we could have gotten at it. This evening once we were docked we had another idea on how to make a temporary fix and Susan was back in the locker cutting about 8 inches of the hose off in order to cut out the leaking part. Works like a champ. We will need to replace the hose sooner rather than later but it is at least fixed for now.
Today was a tough day as we found a couple of problems that we thought we had previously fixed but obviously not completely. The water pump on the generator is leaking again and the aft head is continually running when we have the pump on giving us water pressure. All this and we ran aground when we were circling at a lock waiting for our turn. We were well and truly stuck. A guy that works at the lock came over in some sort of work boat and pulled us off. It ended up only costing us 20 minutes or so but a fair bit of angst. Fortunately the rest of the day went smoothly.
Tonight we are tied up at the North Pier Marina in Delcambre, Louisiana. Our friends Ted and Claire on Another Life that are about three weeks ahead of us told us about it. It is no where near the place we were at in Kemah but the people we've dealt with so far could not be nicer. Tomorrow morning T-Boy (a 76 year old mad that doesn't look much over 50) is going to drive us to one of the gardens in the area. He said when we're done just call him and he'll come pick us back up. He's willing to take us shopping, to do laundry, sightseeing, pretty much whatever we want to do. Some real Southern Louisiana hospitality here.
Just after dusk as we were finishing our meal of pork chops and asparagus from the grill we saw our first alligator. Both Susan and I have been searching high and low for them and here one came swimming just on the other side of the pier from us. If I was to guess I'd say he wasn't more than four feet long.
Tomorrow we're going to stay here and do some sightseeing and hopefully get a few things fixed before we move on. After yesterday we decided we needed to slow down and enjoy the trip a bit more. It's about the journey, not the destination.
Take care.
Brian
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