One of my favorite sets of photos from the Mississippi River is one from a high-water period in April of 2008, when I paddled down around the old bridges that span the river just below downtown Memphis. In the foreground here, we see the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge that carries Interstate 55 over the river. The next bridge back is the oldest span, the Frisco Bridge; and beyond it is the Harahan Bridge.
The river is quite high right now, with a Memphis gauge reading this morning of 32.1 feet. The water in this photo is at least several feet higher than that: I paddled down by the old bridges yesterday, and the landscape pictured here was still dry.
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