Crescent River Anchorage

 

We had a bit of light rain early in the day but mostly smooth travels from Isle of Hope to the Crescent River anchorage.  A few dolphin sightings but not so many as the previous few days.

Crescent River was a nice anchorage - we were close to the boat that had been across the dock from us at Isle of Hope, "Immrama" (more on them later).  Our first location because it was to much in the middle of the river.  Moving up river seemed like a better option.  

The wind was blowing pretty hard and didn't ever calm down.  I was trying to sleep but the wind was howling, the water was banging on the bow and, most distressingly, the anchor line kept hiking up the bow roller and every time the boat spun in the opposite direction the line would pop back to center with a THWANG!  I was concerned that this would wear on the line so got up at 1:30 or so and struggled to grab the line in front of the bow roller to tie it off to one side.  The wind was blowing too hard to make this an easy task...but I persevered and waited for a gust to subside then quickly dragged it in.  It took a while - Kathy was sound asleep, noticed none of this!

The good news is, we didn't drag.  The bad news is, I only got 3-4 hours sleep.  I will probably sleep for a week straight when I get "home" to make up for all the nights at anchor!