Mighty Mississippi River

This is a picture of the Mississippi River from the bridge of our boat. 

As you can see it is very muddy (kind of a chocolate brown), very turbulent, and moves very quick.

This is some of the debris from the river being flooded.  We spend our days looking for these large logs and avoiding them.  It keeps both the captain and the first mate on their toes.

This is a green can (this marks the channel to follow in the river)  It is stationery and you can see how fast the river is following by the current next to it.

This is  picture of our chart plotter which we use for our navigation.  It has a picture of the river and the channel you should be following. (on the right side of the picture).  At the lower left corner you can see we are traveling at 12 miles per hour.....Our boat normally travels at 8 miles per hour so the river is pushing us FAST downstream.

These are the limestone cliffs along the banks of the river, just some of the beautiful scenery.

This is another quiet anchorage off the Mississippi River.  We shared this with a couple of other boats anchored behind us.