I had some company on the river this weekend: my friend Heather, a fellow racer and all-around lovely person who lives in the Lake Lanier area of Georgia, was in town for her high school reunion. She brought her boat and we paddled for around 100 minutes both yesterday and today.
I tried to give her a nice little tour of my training grounds out on the Mississippi. Yesterday we paddled out of the harbor and upriver to the mouth of the Wolf River, and then over to the area between the Arkansas bank and the lower end of the Loosahatchie Bar. With the river flowing around 10 feet on the Memphis gauge, the water was shallow there with hazards presented by the rocks dumped there by the Corps of Engineers. So we didn't linger long before returning to the harbor and the dock.
Today we headed downriver toward Presidents Island and checked out a few of the points of interest: the Big River Crossing over the Harahan Bridge; Engineers Beach on the Arkansas shore; and the many jetties that require a little extra oomph from the paddler making his or her way upriver along the Arkansas bank.
The weather has been quite warm as predicted this weekend, but not horrifically so. Breezes both days made the river not a bad place to be at all.
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