The day was predicted to be cold but little did I realize just how cold it would be the temperature had said certain degrees but with the wind blowing 10 to 12 miles an hour it’s suddenly dropped the temperature down into the 30s.
Normally there’s a lot of temperature variances that I can handle but unfortunately at this stage I was not prepared for the 30s even if they are in the high 30s and the wind was bidding or biting cold and so it made it hard to be motivated to get out of the sleeping bag and to begin to prepare the kayak to be moved in to have improvised cargo holds as well as decks and to secure the chairs and tarps in order to transport everything 15 River miles downstream to camp number two which is on an island with the sandbar where I hoped to get re-organized.
This sandbar island sitting in the middle of the Mississippi river approximately at Plaquemine is where I planned on staying until finally the weather broke and we began to get warm weather again with sunshine otherwise I’m not moving and I’ll just travel over to Plaquemine and back to the island until it warms up.
It’s just taking too much out of me with this cold weather and not being equipped with it with the right tenant or the right gear in order to handle the biting wind and the severe cold it seems to have a grip on Louisiana at this time.
Reno I understand but a warm rain is better than a chilling biting cold rain and unfortunately this tent was not well equipped for the rain either but once I reach the island sandbar I can go ahead and use tarps to reinforce the tent in a better way for any eventual rain that may come my way.
Everything is odd as it may seem made for a better end result but today was hard and it was extremely difficult to move the kayak because I could not slide it but I had to walk yet from catty corner to catty corner from one into the other and walking it back-and-forth across the landscape until finally I reached the slope where I could put a tarp under it and drag it the rest of the way to where tits now.
Taking my time and trying to reinforce body heat by drinking hot coffee and hot soup didn’t seem to alleviate just how cold it really is here it is amazing that down by the water of course it is like an air conditioner while in Lynn it’s not much better but at least some of it’s blocked.
Well I was working on the kayak I did have two gentlemen pull up in a skiff that was like I don’t know quite how to describe it but we definitely build for the river and for landing on the shorelines with the long front would look like a car very tight platform that they travel back-and-forth apparently in their cabin giving rides to people that are working for the company so we visited for a little bit and he warned me about being out on the ocean
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