Mississippi River

Since I have read Huckleberry Finn, I made sure that I visited the nearby Mississippi River.  It was about a three blocks walk from the Hotel Monteleone.  

Spanning over the Mississippi is the Greater New Orleans cantilever bridge.

In Hawaii, we have barges that take goods and automobiles between the islands.  In New Orleans, a major seaport, the barges travel up and down the river, a commercial route.  It is amazing to see them loaded with logs and other goods.

This is one of the many ferry boats that travel along the Mississippi River. This one appears to provide leisure cruise targeted to the tourist.  There is a ferry system that that transport people and automobiles across the Mississippi, from Algiers Point Canal Street.

Mississippi River at night

Just a close up picture of the Mississippi's water.  Its murky, very opaque.  The New Orleans area near the river is actually a delta and wetlands. Everything that flows from inland to the river upstream ends up in NO.  No one would dare to eat the abundant fish and crabs in the waters.  As I learned from someone at the STORET conference, NO is said to be the "a hole" of the Mississippi River!

Mississippi from above

Fortunately the skies were clear to take a few nice photos of the river.  If you look closely, you can see the river being used as a commercial waterway as barges navigate through its waters.  The third photo from the left is a beautiful shot of the cantilever bridge.

NO is quite different then most cities in the United States.  Its elevation is below the sea level.  Marshlands or bayous is on the outskirts of the City.  If you look closely to the left of the 1st photo and to the middle of the second, you can see the patches of marshes (or some say swamps).  It is habitat filled with alligators and crawfish.

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