The river’s up…

We weathered yesterday’s attempts by Storm Erik to blow us across the navigation, and by mid-afternoon the wind had dropped and the sun came out.

Timothy the tern was enjoying the sunshine on a half-submerged log across from us…

…but this afternoon his perch has disappeared below the waves.

Rain overnight and this morning has pushed the river up about 6”, but I expect it’ll go back down soon. The Soar is like that, up and down like a yo-yo.

We’ll leave it till Tuesday before we head off back downstream.

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