Riverboat Cruise on the Steamboat "NATCHEZ"
Once we were all aboard we headed off downstream, thus beginning our river cruise. The Mississippi River is quite wide at this point. I was keeping a close watch on the waterway to see if I could spot that young rascal Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn but they were nowhere to be seen. They must have been a little further up river. I was surprised to see so much traffic on the river. There was an awful lot of Barge traffic on the river. Some tugs were pushing as many as twenty barges at one time. There was a lot of big ships as well.
We were allowed to enter the engine room to see it in operation, pretty noisy place.Back on deck it was pretty peaceful. If you let your imagination run free you could totally imagine what it would have been like 150 years ago with all of the crowds and the loading of cotton bales to go to the market. We had reached the midway point in our cruise and the steamboat made its turn and gave us a view of the New Orleans skyline. We steamed past our landing dock to get a close up view of one of the bridges and a good look at the New Orleans Aquarium. We made another turn and edged up to the landing so we could disembark on the downriver side of the boat. That concluded our day on the river.
I still had to buy my new hat so I got in a pedicab and he took me to "Meyer The Hatter" The south's largest hat store. That is the same place that I bought my hat the first time I was in town in 2005.The manager Sam Meyer is a great old guy. He is in his 80's and he has been a fixture in the store for well over 50 years. He picked me out a great hat. A Borsalino, it is camel in colour. That was it for our day. We will be visiting the Oak Alley Plantation tomorrow. See you then.
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Loved every minute of it Shawn. Unfortunately when you are with a large tour group you do not have a great deal of time for individual initiatives. I wish that they would have given us a free day so we could do the things we wanted to do. We have a contractor here in Canada, Mike Holmes, who is known for "doing things right". He went down to New Orleans and took his whole crew with him to the 9th ward. That was an area that was the hardest hit during Katrina. They built a hurricane proof home for one of the survivors and I really wanted to go see that house. Unfortunately Tour Buses were not allowed in that area. We could have gone there in a taxi but there was no available time. Thank you for your comment. Peter
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Thanks for the tour...
You are quite welcome mama2karsten