• fishing on the Rhone
  • we approach one of the dozen or so locks we transited on the Rhone River
  • entering the channel for L'écluse de Caderousse from the downstream side
  • the gate opens to allow us into the lock chamber
  • commercial vessels have priority; we do not have to wear life jackets
  • we enter the huge lock with a glass of wine
  • we moor to the starboard side and the gates close
  • the lock wall from our room
  • the dam/lock generates 156 MW power
  • we have reached the upstream level and my wine level is low
  • a spare mooring anchor the fits in the side of the lock and goes up and down with water level
  • on to Vivier and her hot neighbors
  • a seagull family a long way from the sea
  • perhaps the lockkeeper
  • above the lock/dam the Rhone is a lake
  • we dock at Vivier, France
  • the Vivier dogs are well fed
  • the Vivier boat harbor
  • small, just like the town Vivier
  • we see life sized art models several places along the Rhone
  • the Rembrant docked at Vavier, France
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  • Viviers town center
  • the 80 Vantagers invade the village
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