5 Mar 13

Collected the folding bike from the marina office and assembled it. Returned the rental car to Enterprise and they kindly gave me a ride back to the marina. It was just after noon and the weather still looked good, so we decided to head for Rabbit Island anchorage on the ICW, about 20 miles east of NOLA. First we fueled up. Then, off on the road (or waterway) again. Fairly low key trip through the coastal swamps of SE Louisiana with absolutely NO barge traffic, which was kind of weird, after all the traffic we had to the west of NOLA. Made it to the anchorage by just after 5:00 p.m. It was only a few yards from a very busy railroad track, but otherwise in the middle of nowhere. Oddly, when we anchored, there was about 0.5 knots of current in the oxbow lake where we were anchored a couple of hundred yards off the ICW; just enough current to keep the stern pointed straight into about 12 knots of wind, so it got pretty cool in the cockpit as soon as the sun went down. Other than the trains rumbling through about once an hour, uneventful night.