Mississippi River - Cape Girardeau - 10/08/05

From Hoppies to Barkley Lake there are no marinas. So you have to be somewhat creative about finding spots to tie up or anchor. We mostly rely on other boaters for this information and of course Fern gave us a lot of suggestions. From Hoppies we went to Cape Girardeau. We had heard that a guy named Neal had moved an old barge right to the downtown shoreline for boats to tie up to. We called him ahead of time and made arrangements to spend the night there. It was different. Very rocky and noisy with the water splashing all around our boat and pretty big waves when a tow and barge would go through. Floating logs would often hit our boat as they raced down the river. Nice town, nice people. A major, 20 ft. high, flood wall, with huge doors, protects the city when the river rises in the spring. The town has beautifully painted murals depicting much of this town's history on both side of the walls. Before we left the next morning Lisa was able to get a wifi signal just on the other side of the wall so that we could send and receive email and update this blog. All was good.