January 1, 2013

  • CAPTAIN SHOT THROUGH WINDSHIELD

    Cruising downriver the other morning, it was too cold to venture outside the wheelhouse, or even open the doors, in order to get a glare-free shotSo I didn't bother....

     

    These barges have been aground since Isaac passed through

     

     

     

     

    Those are ducks, and they number in the thousands around any of the grain terminals along the  length of the Mississippi River

     

     

     

     

     ...and the grain elevator of choice for this discerning flock is Cargill Westwego

    Formerly Continental Grain, it can offload or load two ships at a time, from either barges or silos on land

    One of the area's most popular attractions, and a very good friend of mine, The Aquarium of the Americas!

    It's just steam, so we are told

    A Corps of Engineers towboat, and several quarterboats, probably part of a levee repair project. Those barges are each 200-feet long

     And we batten the hatch on another photoblog, and wish you all the best of New Years

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