Mermentau River to Calcasieu River
15 June 2014 | Calcasieu River, near Lake Charles, LA
Beverly/sunny and warm
Tonight's sunset at anchorage
Today we motored 43 miles down the ICW to another river, the Calcasieu River. We needed to transit the Calcasieu locks and a couple of pontoon bridges. There was no delay at the first bridge. The second bridge is tied in with the locks, and there was a short delay while we waited for the eastbound barge to come through. But the actual locking through was easy because we just floated the lock again. Nice! There was a lot of barge traffic, but no problems. We saw 2 alligators swimming the other way in the ICW (sorry, no photo - too quick).