Sunday

Aug 14th, Sunday
A horn blast from barge Mary Eckstein woke us &t 9:30am. As we drank our coffee, surrounded by dripping sleeping bags, T-shirts and towels, James read an except from 'Old Glory.' Coming up between Thebes and Commerce we have The Grand Chain. Every type of boat to have plied the river lies at the bottom in this treacherous straight. We have Water Moccasin Snakes (deadlier than a rattle snake), ship wrecks, roiling chutes, and killer mosquito's here in the South.