Peoria to Devil's Elbow 9/21/17

In the morning Debbie took Abby for a walk and then we had breakfast onboard with some thick sliced pepper bacon we bought at Marianos Italian Grocery in Chicago.   It was pretty good too. After that it was off to the Cat museum for the tour. I put most of the pictures in yesterdays blog so today's will be short. We got away from the dock around lunchtime and had lunch underway as we tried to catch up to the pack which had passed us by as we visited the museum. We looked for a place to anchor and the recommended anchorages were too far for us to get to before dark so we pulled off the main channel and anchored in deep water outside of the channel.  The funny thing was the water was deeper outside the channel than in it. We left lots of lights on and the AIS along with the anchor light so we wouldn't get run over by a tow.  The AIS sends information about your boat and your position to other boats coming by.  All of the tows use it and we felt safe that we would be seen on the AIS and also by the captains looking out the window.  We were not in the channel.

Big Mining truck and some of the original Best and Holt tractors that became Caterpillar