Paddlewheel Riverboat at Cave-in-Rock

It was 64° when we got up this morning. The van camper that came in here at the campground last night left this morning. After our morning coffee we took Tinker for a walk around the campground. We stopped to talk with the folks at the pop-up camper and found out that a riverboat was stopped at Cave-in-Rock and it's passengers were exploring the cave.

We decided to take a drive into town, but didn't see the riverboat. Since we hadn't had breakfast, we stopped at Rosie's Kountry Kitchen.

From Cave-in-Rock, IL

It was 9:45 and there were only a few people in the restaurant. We had a big breakfast including biscuits and gravy with our scrambled eggs, hash browns and sausage and bacon. While we were eating breakfast, we found out that the riverboat was still at the cave - so we still had time to see it.

We walked over to the Village Hall and I picked up an Illinois road map. Mike took some pictures of downtown Cave-in-Rock.

From Cave-in-Rock, IL

From Cave-in-Rock, IL

We then drove through the State Park and parked up on the bluff over looking the river and could see the riverboat at the cave. We saw Lyndal the camp host on the bluff looking at the riverboat. Lyndal was nice enough to take our photo with the paddlewheeler in the background.

From Cave-in-Rock, IL

We drove a little farther along on the bluff and parked where we had a better view of the