Green Turtle Bay, Kentucky

So here we are in Green Turtle Bay, Kentucky! It's been a long couple of days! From Alton to here we put on 294 miles. We left Alton Monday morning, and made it to Hoppies Marina early afternoon. This was to be the last marina for over 200 miles. Basically, it was 4 barges tied to the side of the Mississippi river! It was run by Hoppy and his wife Fern, who appeared to be in their 70s, but still pretty active. The pic of the group of us is all us "loopers" gathered at Ferns "meeting". She held it at 4:30, and explained what we should expect on the upcoming trip down the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. She's quite a character to say the least! They have been manning this marina for 32 years. We left Hoppies marina early Tuesday, and made it to mile marker 7.9 on the Mississippi, just before it meets the Ohio, to anchor for the night. We had another cruiser that we had met at Hoppies raft off us for the night. As Bud says, we were somewhere between the middle of nowhere and no place in hell!! We left there early Wednesday morning and arrived at Green Turtle Bay mid afternoon. We plan on relaxing here for a few days. The one pic is off our "class" at Hoppies. There is also one of the arches at St. Louis as we went by. The shot of the dumptruck unloading scrap metal into a barge we just found interesting. And finally, we passed every day this tugboat the WENDY L. those of you in the family will understand WHY we found that SO interesting!! Not alot of stuff to see on these rivers, so we had to make up our own fun! That's it for today, love to you all- Bud, Fran and Ray