Page 104 - Louisiana Loop (manuscript Edition)

The day was predicted to be cold but little did I realize just how cold it would be the temperature had said certain
degrees but with the wind blowing 10 to 12 miles an hour it’s suddenly dropped the temperature down into the 30s.

Normally there’s a lot of temperature variances that I can handle but unfortunately at this stage I was not prepared for
the 30s even if they are in the high 30s and the wind was biting cold and so it made it hard to be motivated to get out of
the sleeping bag and to begin to prepare the kayak to be moved inland and to have improvised cargo holds as well as
decks and to secure the chairs and tarps in order to transport everything 15 River miles downstream to camp number
two which is on an island with the sandbar where I hoped to get re-organized.
This sandbar island sitting in the middle of the Mississippi river approximately at Plaquemine is where I planned on
staying until finally the weather broke and we began to get warm weather again with sunshine otherwise I’m not moving
and I’ll just travel over to Plaquemine and back to the island until it warms up. Or at least that was the plan.
It’s just taking too much out of me with this cold weather and not being equipped with it with the right tent or the right
gear in order to handle the biting wind and the severe cold it seems to have a grip on Louisiana at this time. Nothing was
easy except to not want to be in the wind.
Rain I understand but a warm rain is better than a chilling biting cold rain and unfortunately this tent was not well
equipped for the rain either but once I reach the island sandbar I can go ahead and use tarps to reinforce the tent in a
better way for any eventual rain that may come my way.
So the day was speny getting everything to shore for an eventual launch. But nothing done in a hurry, too cold.