Two Tours Around Alton, and Scrubbing the Decks



Monday, August 26 2019
Day 16 on the Loop – Alton, IL (0 miles)

On Monday I had not one, but two tours!   In the morning I went to Alton Fire Station at the kind invitation of Capt. Steve Perry, who I had met on the dock when they were doing a check on their fire boat, and then when I called 911 later in the evening because of smoke coming from a nearby boat.

It was a fun tour and great to learn about how other jurisdictions do things.   After that I stopped off at Mac’s Downtown for a relaxed lunch, before going on to the Melvin Price Lock and Dam/Great Rivers Museum for a tour of their facility.    





Melvin Price Lock and Dam

They have a very nice visitor center and the volunteer, Joe, was very enthusiastic about the facility.  I was the only person on the 3:00 pm tour, and so could ask questions to my heart’s content and had a very nice conversation with him.
Above the main lock at the Melvin Price Lock and Dam


Tour Guide Joe points out how high the waters got in the floods of 1993.



I like their Rangers!  :)

A gallon of Simple Green had arrived for me, so I spent the evening trying to clean the cockpit area.   I have a scrubber with a handle, but a lot of it seems to require being on my hands and knees and scrubbing with a sponge.

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