Dredgery

Took a day off work last Friday. One thing good about this job is that I've been there so long, my vacation days build up fairly quickly. Took My Sweetie to the river for a canoe ride. It was pretty nice and mostly quiet down there. But we did come upon this odd looking boat. It was kinda noisy. They were dredging sand out of the river. When we were at the coast last year, they were dredging the channel with this big old thing. This river operation is not so big I guess. But the point here is to get the sand. Out there they just wanted it out of the way. And so, there is a long, Big Ass Hose from the dredgie thingie to this place on the bank. This spot on the river is dammed up of course, and if they didn't dredge, it would eventually get filled with sand, I suppose. On the far left you can see where the Big Ass Hose runs up into the plant. (You can "click" on it for a better look, but y'all knew that) The barrel is one of 'em that keeps the hose up off the bottom, it's pretty long. Here is a closer look at the operation. The water and sand come out of the Big Ass Hose and the water ends up back in the river. You can see this happening behind the floating barrel. The sand takes a ride up the belt and eventually makes it to a truck. There is no picture of the truck, but I'm sure you've seen one of them before.
We had a pleasant morning on the river, and pretty much had the place to ourselves. We even found a sandy "beach" for a "private" swim.
Enjoy the 4th.