To Cape Girardeau Missouri

We covered 110 miles today with the help of a 5 mile an hour Mississippi current.  This part of the river all the way to New Orleans is oriented toward  industry, tows, and barges with almost no marinas; so we are on our way to the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Tennessee rivers.
Tonight we are staying on anchor in a beautiful stream off of the Mississippi. Tomorrow after 46 more miles on the mighty Mississippi we enter the Ohio proceeding 46 more miles and two locks to a dock at Paduca Kentucky.

Today was a pleasant trip with fast current, turbulant waters with whirlpool included.   There were many Tows and barges to deal with but the river is so wide they were no problem to us.

Along the river; lots of beauty, industry, tugs, and barges delivering coal and chemicals


                                     



Anchoring

 Cape Girardeau is a rather large industrial town that we will not be visiting tonight as our intent is to get an early start for another big day on the water.