We are now considered River Rats. Now that we have traveled up the Sacramento river and officially in fresh water we are river rats. The trip from Emeryville was uneventful. We left at 06:00 after filling up the fuel tank, in order to ride the flood tide all the way to Rio Vista, most of the time getting a 2 knot push up the river. We traveled under quite a number of bridges only one of which was a tight fit. We have a bridge clearance of 65' (from the top of the radio antenna to the water). The tight fit was under a railroad bridge which has a reported 70' clearance to the water. Should be easy fit but still made Susan and I nervous. We made it no problem, even with Amtrak going across while we went under. Lots of low foot hills with dead grass and windmills, very different scenery from Vancouver Island last year. After 7 hours and 54 nm we arrived at Delta Marina. The depth gauge jumped around from 9 feet deep to only 6.5' deep (we need 6.5' to not hit bottom), which made me nervous that we would hit bottom. As it turns out there are plants growing up from the bottom the made the depth finder think the bottom was not as deep as it was. We have spent 4 nights here, walking around, relaxing, taking the dinghy out on the river, and today Susan's mother and father drove up and visited for a while. Had lunch at Foster's Big Horn Cafe, it has one of the biggest taxidermy displays in the world. Bill Foster in the 20's and 30's took many hunting trips to Africa, Canada, Alaska and the US. As you can see in the pictures it is an amazing display, and kind of sad. We took advantage of having a car and made a trip to the grocery store for more supplies. Some of these supplies included ICE CREAM. Have I told you how hot it is here, it reached 94 degrees today and zero wind. At least it is a dry heat at 36% humidity. Susan and I would sit on the back deck and spray water on ourselves to cool off which helped. Then we got crazy, after some Mikes Hard Lemonade and Ice Cream, and staged a wet tee shirt contest. Susan won.
The plan is to leave around 5 a.m. to ride the ebb tide to Glen Cove marina half way up towards San Francisco and hopefully cooler temperatures.
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