Cairo, IL - end

James and I stayed behind on the boat while the others went for vital supplies....beer, gas, food and ice. From our mooring we can see IL, Kentucky and Missouri. A lonely park, 2 sauna-potties, littered banks and flies that bite like vipers....not much of a showing for the confluence of two great rivers.

James and I agreed that we had exected to see way more 'river life.' It is as though the river is merely an artery, a conduit to transport goods on. Life associated with it seems to be from a bygone era.

A local slipping his boat near us told us that the Mississ has only been this low 3 or 4 times in recorded memory! That explains the limited barge traffic we have seen.