Aramon to Diksmuide - Day 2

Eagerly anticipating an early start, the brakes were applied as we sat beneath thick, swirly fog.
We sipped another cup of steaming coffee as we waited for the sun to burn off the mist.

We have many additional (skittering) passengers hitching a ride with us. They do a great job catching the mozzies!

We hauled anchor at 10:00 and puttered along beneath beautiful soft blue skies.

There aren't many locks on the Rhone, but they are rather large. Locking through is easy, we use one line amidships around the floating bollard. We're going up and the floating bollards rise with us.

View from our wheelhouse. Noel's on the helm. I am sitting next to him busily writing.

Approaching the town of Viviers (3 km).

Nuclear power station - it's not all beautiful!

Here's where we anchored. More detail on the maps below.

We started at the bottom of the green route - and will reach the top (Diksmuide) at some point! Still a long way to go. (We are where the red circle is).

We left at 10 am from PK200 and arrived at our anchor site at 18:30 (PK144). We had a great southerly wind pushing us along and very little current. Probably about 1-2 knots. We covered 56 km.

Thanks to Eureaweb Ltd for allowing us to photograph their great electronic charts of France and Belgium.