Mississippi River Cruise - 2007
In June of 2007 my wife Alison and I had the opportunity to take a paddle-wheel cruise of the lower Mississippi. We boarded the luxureous American Queen in Memphis and, over the next week, leasurely traveled down-river to New Orleans. Here is just a small sampler of the range of pictures I took with my van Ekeren P43 twin-rig. The trip was unforgetable and the stereo camera delivered very nice pictures under a range of challenging conditions.
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The beauty of the classic riverboat is that formal docking arrangements are not required, as evidence on our first morning when we visted Helena, Arkansas. This casual docking capability came in handly later in the trip when a passenger suffered a serious health problem. The Captain carefully maneuvered the "Queen" to the shore, put out the ramp, and transferred the passenger to the of local emergency personnel.
An artificial embayment provided the municipal docking facilities for Helena. From there, a pleasant boardwalk provided a route through the bottomland forest to the river.
There were many things to be seen at the Vicksburg National Battlefield site. Here is a view from inside the wreck of an ironclad, the U.S.S. Cairo, that had gone down during the siege of Vickburg (Mississippi) and had recently been salvaged and partially restored.
Natchez, Mississippi has a treasure-trove of historic antebellum mansions and we had the opportunity to tour several of them.
The appointments on the American Queen were first-rate, illustrated by the daily flower arrangements in the main dining room.
We took the "Cajun Pride" swamp tour near Baton Rouge and saw lots of wildelife, including alligators, as we drifted through the swamp.
The famous walkway, lined by 400-year old live oaks, leading to the Oak Alley plantation house in Vacherie, Louisiana.
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