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Day 274

9/5/2010

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Daily Stats
Start: 1:00 PM - MM 433 New Boston, IL
Finish 6:00 PM - MM 409 Burlington, IA
Time: 5:00 hours
Daily dist: 24 miles
Lock 18: 5:15-5:45
Total dist: 5400+
Companions: Joe and Joe for the first two miles from their cabin back to the river
Weather: Mostly clear, 70’s, S wind 15+ (headwind)
Notes: Left Jo’s cabin at 11:15 for paddle to main channel
As of yesterday I had paddled ten days I a row. They weren’t all long days but it felt good to sleep in a bit this morning just the same. After a nice breakfast prepared by Jo the three of us (Joe, Jo, and me) launched off the beach by their cabin and paddled together back out Sturgeon Bay to the main channel in New Boston. There we said our goodbyes and I turned my kayak into the wind and started south.

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Jo and Joe at the boat launch in New Boston
After parting ways with the Joes, it was a fairly uneventful day aside from the choppy water from the strong wind blowing straight upstream. The later than normal start didn’t give me a lot of time before dark which didn’t matter because with the wind blowing like it was I didn’t want to slog it out any longer than I had anyway. The campsite I ended up in is on a beautiful point of land on the downstream end of an island that I’d bet was under water little more than a week ago. In fact I’ve noticed the river dropping significantly over the last six days I’ve been on it. Hopefully this trend will reveal even more dry land  like I found tonight and make the daily chore of finding accessible, campable, camp spots a lot easier.

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Sunset in camp tonight
4 Comments
Lyn Stachovak
9/6/2010 12:58:31 am

Happy Labor Day! Nothing exciting going on around here. It is a nice day so far tho, so...

Love you and keep paddling. Almost done!

Mom

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The Jo-e's
9/6/2010 06:13:07 am

Wow Jake...we had 70mph winds at the cabin last night and rain this morning...I pray they don't follow you south. Hope you enjoyed your cow last night Mooooooooooo ;)

Jo & Joe
aka The Blog Stalkers

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Lyn Stachovak
9/6/2010 06:44:32 am

Good news... Dad found your phone. It was in the basement on the saw? Let us know what you want us to do with it.

Mom

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Norman Moll
9/6/2010 10:36:04 am

Hi Jake, Have you noticed that the Goggle map photos that one views for the section of the river below Rock Island when at high magnification show ice starting to break up on the side channels of the river? I thought this was interesting since it is part of the river where you were detoured last December due to ice!
Enjoy your trip.
Norman

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