Houma to Mississippi Lock Staging Area

I'm a couple days behind because those days have been very long. On Monday we left Houma with a couple of ideas of where to get fuel, but neither of these panned out. We found a place called Joe's Landing a few miles down the Barataria waterway that had diesel and we were able to top up and head back to just over the ICW to Lake Salvador to anchor for the night.

We have only seen only a few other sailboats, and maybe twice that non-commercial powerboats of one flavor or another. Most of our company is in the form of barges which can be pretty big. Some have what's called a six-pack, with the barges doubled up that the tug is pushing down the ditch.

The anchorage was very pretty, but the fierce mosquitos returned. I was highly motivated to figure out how to install the screens on the ports, but by the time I did that I was pretty woozy from the blood loss.

Tomorrow we raise anchor in the wee hours for our longest day yet.