7:49 am
Danube River on the way to Passau
To paraphrase …”DoraMac has left the dock!!”
Email might be iffy after this as it’s the final day of our dongle sim card. We’ll have to depend on what we can find along the way.
Passau is our final stop in Germany and then we’ll enter Austria.
Ru
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We’re off
Remembering…
(Continued…)
Another Book List and a visit to the Deggendorf Library
NMYC Yacht Club, Deggendorf
Day 52 of 90..
Guten Tag,
It has been especially good today as we finally GOT SOME RAIN !!!! The river levels are forecasted to rise so hopefully we’ll be on our way tomorrow to Passau which is our final stop in Germany. Our next country will be Austria, also a Schengen country […]
Deggendorf Old Town
NMYC Yacht Club, Deggendorf
Guten Abend,
Mon Tue WedThuFri weather according to Google. Hopefully we’ll get that rain !
Deggendorf
http://www.deggendorf.de official town brochure.
Roses are blooming everywhere. And in the town center this flower map of Europe.
“The Old Town Hall with its gothic tower was erected in 1535, and is one of the emblems of Deggendorf. […]
NMYC Yacht Club Deggendorf
Guten Morgen….
Our definition of a good morning has totally changed. Once upon a time “good” was bright sun and no rain in the forecast. Now it’s just the opposite. We need several days of rain to raise the water level of the Danube or we’ll have to race through the rest of the […]
Next stop, Glacier Bay
Our first full day in Juneau, June 16, was laundry day. It is a bit of a hike, close to 1/2 mile, from the transient docks in Auke Bay to the laundromat. Fortunately it was a pretty nice day and we made an event of it by bringing our computer with us to check e-mail as we had breakfast at the waffle house next door. Internet is a problem in Auke Bay (there isn’t any). After laundry, Marcia cleaned the interior of the boat while I did the exterior. I am still cleaning pollen from Puget Sound from the nooks and crannies on the boat.
Our shopping day on June 17 was assisted by the rental car we hired for the day. This year we used a local “rent-a-wreck” and had a perfectly adequate 18 year old Ford Escort station wagon with over a quarter of a million miles on the odometer. The rental was about a quarter of the price of the rental from a nation-wide rental company we used last year.
We were glad we had a station wagon as we filled it during our visits to Fred Meyers, Petco, Costco, Safeway and Western Auto (an automotive/sporting goods store). We also got our requisite visit to the Alaskan Brewing tasting room. It took 3-1/2 cart loads to get everything from the parking lot to the boat. We timed the tide level well so that we didn’t have a steep ramp to contend with. The rain showers that occurred throughout the day were harder to time.
Our original intent was to depart on June 18 but the marginal weather convinced us another day at the dock was a perfectly reasonable decision. It worked out well since we were able to meet up with our friends on Peachy Keen and Outbound that we had bumped into in Swanson Harbor. It worked out well for Peachy Keen as they ended up rafting to us for the night since Auke Bay had filled up with gill netters after their closure on 6/17 brought them to port until the next opening.
The weather was much calmer as we pulled away from the dock on June 19. Peachy Keen hovered a short distance away so that they could swoop back into our spot before any of the other boats rafting to moored boat could take the spot. We have a few days to try fishing again before meeting up in Glacier Bay on June 22 with Cindee and Steve, Marcia’s sister and brother-in-law.
Geisling Lock waiting area for the night
NMYC Yacht Club
Deggendorf
Guten Abend,
Every now and then we “camp out” and really enjoy it. Once in the Netherlands just past a lock and a few nights ago on our way to Deggendorf. It actually is quite a treat to be “out in nature” as they say here in Europe. However, for spending several days […]
Saal and Regensburg
NMYC Yacht Club
Deggendorf
Guten Tag,
We’ve been “stranded” in Deggendorf since the afternoon of the 16th. We had planned an overnight stop, but there’s just not enough water in the Danube for us to continue downstream. We actually scrapped bottom on our way here. Thankfully there is one visitor berth here at the NMYC […]
Berching
Deggendorf
Guten Abend,
Berching was charming! We arrived 4:45 on Thursday afternoon after a long day of locks and such. When the boat had been secured to the town dock, we went off for a stroll and dinner. It was a lovely evening during which I met one of the library staff and had a lovely […]
Big locks and the Great Divide
June 16, 2014
Deggendorf
Guten Abend
We scraped bottom once or twice today. The water level on the Danube is very low. There’s one more stretch up ahead that’s also shallow but hopefully it will rain here or the rising levels of water upstream from us will get here. As of tonight we’re planning to rent a […]
