The Jonk, wintering in an alley

Home stretch: the Jonk loiters below Lock and Dam 1

Minnesota River: lovely to look at but you wouldn't want to swim there

We saw a lot of this egret

Day Nine: Getting his unabomber on

The walleye that swallowed my last nightcrawler at Pike Island backwater

Carp boated in backwater of Pike Island

Midnight surgeon

Fearing winds, we hunkered down in the shadow of the Mendota Bridge for three days

15 hp: surprisingly, up to the task of shoving the Jonk up the Mississippi

Giving wide berth to a tow on Pool 2

Cormorants

Grey cloud at Grey Cloud Island

The backwater of Grey Cloud Island where we moored for a night

View from port window: a big wide spot in the Mississippi north of Hastings

Passing tow above Lock and Dam 2

What Jonk never did: We head back up the Mississippi

Terry scrutinizes the nemesis of our top heavy houseboat: the pleasure craft armada of the rich

Encountered on the hike to Bayport

J examines jagoff tsunami on the St. Croix