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Posted By:
Nickens, Dan
Date Posted:
Jul 29, 2017
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"Left a good job in the city
Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river"
(John Fogerty, CCR)
Sometimes you just gotta stop to see where you are. Out on the river you can see a fer piece.
"Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
Pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
'Til I hitched a ride on a flying boat king
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river"
Nineteen years ago I left my day job to become a flying bum. Ten thousand air hours of low and slow later there are no worries about might have been.
"If you come down to the river
Bet you gonna find some people who live
You don't have to worry 'cause you have [if you got] no money
People on the river are happy to give"
People along the airways are some of the livingest people there are. (But it does matter if you have no money, though plenty of pilots will still give you a ride.)
Date Taken:
July 14, 2017
Place Taken:
Mississippi River at South of Cairo, IL
Owner:
Nickens, Dan
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Life out on the river ain't always easy. There'r some big ol' trippin' sticks lurking out in the murk ready to undo the unwary.
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Trippin' Stick 4949
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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If you are going to roll with the river there are only a few choices. Left or right. Mississippi or Ohio. Up the Mississippi some old storms were waiting. Old storms soon fade away. I went right towards them.
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Binary Choices 4953
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Sometimes a river's just gotta change course despite the Corpse of Engineers and their rock walls. The Mississippi blew out the dikes on the right and spread out over previously protected land. There was an army of responders out trying to figure how to get it back on course. Me and the river just rolled on.
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Change of Course 4974
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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You gotta watch as you're rollin' on a river for fixed things not a rollin'.
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Wire Tripping 4978
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Running heavy upstream can leave some big waves in your wake.
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Big Wake 5004
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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A lone holdout standing strong in a mighty current. Seems like a lot of energy being expended that way.
(South of St. Louis, MO)
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Island in Stream 5040
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Don Maxwell - Jul 28,2017
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That island was moving fast!
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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It's a pretty spider web crossing the river, but the real seaplane trap is just above it (unmarked power lines).
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Fly Trap 5044
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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The old storms left soggy fields in their wake. That's about right. The dirt used to be rock powder rolling with the river. Now it's stuck in place. For now, anyhows.
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Wet Fields 5053
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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The farmer might not like the wet look but the aerial view was vividly colorful, proving you don't have to be rolling to be lovely.
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Wet Colors 5054
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Don Maxwell - Jul 28,2017
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Gorgeous!
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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A little stream reluctantly merges into the big river but they both move on to something a lot bigger just over the far horizon.
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Joining Flows 5096
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Don Maxwell - Jul 28,2017
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But this one is an Ugh! (Gorgeous only if you don't think about what's outside the frame.)
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Stopped temporarily in suspended animation on a sand bar in mid-stream.
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Solid Waves 5107
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Those fallen ferns of millions of years ago are resurrected in an continuing effort to restore the climate to those lush, hot and steamy glory years of millennia back, perhaps keeping the deadly ice at bay for a few more centuries.
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Piling Coal 5131
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Taking a break from the wet stuff to see what the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum has to say about the good old days at the St. Louis Downtown Airport, celebrating McDonnell Douglas by showing off a competitor's product?
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Greater Museum
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Downtown Parking 0773
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Don Maxwell - Jul 28,2017
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Cool! I didn't know about the museum.
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Maybe not museum quality, but it's the only WWII warbird in the house. It was baked, not burned, when an adjoining hangar burned.
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Shattered Stinson 0803
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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It's a riverside landmark that demands to be noted.
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Overarching 5181
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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An old time power player slowly falling to disrepair and ruin.
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Classic Power 5185
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Instead of falling down ugly this old building is brightly shining in its end days.
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Full Graffitti 5189
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Showing that it is not to be outdone shore-bound artists, the river paints some pretty mean and modern sand art.
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Sandbar Art 5195
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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To hide it's theft of water from the river the St. Louis Waterworks cleverly disguised the intake as a fancy house.
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Rockbridge House E 5220
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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If one fake house works, just go for broke and make two to take away the water?
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Rockbridge House W 5224
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Don Maxwell - Jul 28,2017
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Oo! I like this one even better. UI'm ready to move right in!
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Back before the Corpse of Ingineers bypassed the river north of St. Louie you just couldn't get a big barge past the raging rock shoals. Now they can roll on the deeply dug waters of the bypass canal.
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Rockbridge 5230
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Have they run out of room on land? Must they now build their fancy buildings on top of the water?
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Floating Village 5249
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 29,2017
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In an elaborate scheme to make a hide-out for former riverboat gamblers, have local businessmen banded together an eclectic collection of floating junks? Can't abide having a den of sinners ashore?
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Wooden Menagerie 5262
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Up on the Illinois River they take their killing seriously, hunkering down in thinly disguised shacks on the cold cloudy dawns of fall waiting for unsuspecting waterfowl to stop for a rest on their journey south.
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Killing Fields 5300
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Oh the horror! All the pretty white birds wading around the oblivion of a slaughter house!
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Slaughter House 5304
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Her years of glory long past an old river boat barge settles into rot glued to the shore.
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Dry Rot 5317
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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A quiet spot on the river peacefully distant from the ravages of war and rot is a great reminder that the SeaRey life is FANTASTIC! It's a perfect place to remember with gratitude all who make it possible.
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Banked 5335
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Just because it's fantastic doesn't mean it's all good because there will be mud even in paradise!
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Shore Collection 5320
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Don Maxwell - Jul 28,2017
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Ha! Nice shot, Dan! (click twice to zoom in) It's like your own private island.
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Back on the low plains someone is digging up piles of rocks to send down the river.
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Rock Piles 5348
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Sometimes progress is not just patching up the old stuff, it's building bridges all new.
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Getting There 5372
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Permanently parked this prehistoric monster machine no longer gobbles up the coal.
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Shoveling Maching 5404
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 26,2017
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Making mud tracks looks like a fine way to play on the river banks if the day doesn't hold the chance of flying. Rising above the mud is just one of the many joys of a SeaRey day.
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Mud Tracks 5388
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Don Maxwell - Jul 28,2017
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And all the footprints--deer? When I see tracks like these on the ground, I imagine the fun of driving and slogging around down there. But do they imagine the view from a few hundred feet up, and how that perspective elevates the spirit.
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Steve Kessinger - Jul 28,2017
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Dan, if you haven't read it, I just got done reading this by one of my favorite authors, pretty good section on controlling Ol' Man River. Or rather, trying to control.
https://www.amazon.com/Control-Nature-John-McPhee/dp/0374522596
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 28,2017
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A fine author, Steve, and as I recall, a memorable description of the on-going saga of COE vs. forces of nature. I need to go back
and reread it before making the return flight.
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Chuck Cavanaugh - Jul 28,2017
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Not to digress from this thread, but as I speak, the ACOE bulldozers, dredgers, pipes and asundry other equipment are in earshot
destroying our beach. It's unbelievable. We (with only slight exaggeration) call our beach the nicest in the world and here they are
wrecking it.....all in the name of "protection". From what, they can't say but they assure us it's for our own good.
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Don Maxwell - Jul 28,2017
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And when they're done, they'll probably close it to humans.
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Steve Kessinger - Jul 29,2017
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Unless you're the Governor of NJ
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Nickens, Dan - Jul 28,2017
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Ack! Amazon says I purchased a hard copy in 2007. Remember those things? Physical objects you could hold but can't access
electronically? Seems so limiting now!
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Steve Kessinger - Jul 29,2017
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Right inside TSSA SFO entrance is Compass Books, they keep a huge 50% off table well stocked with a rotating selection. I buy books 2-3 at time and burn through at least one/trip, then pass them on downhill to the staff at the hotels in China so they can work on their English.
One of the most powerful moments I've ever had in China was a couple months ago when one of the staff asked me if it was true that the sky was always blue in San Francisco. It took me a moment to correlate that with the often smoggy skies in China. I showed them photos on my work iPad which is not subject to the Great Firewall. The looks on their faces were pretty poignant.
/endthreaddrift
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Don Maxwell - Jul 29,2017
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Yow! That's a really interesting site, Steve--and in the case of China, a depressing one. When we lived in Xi'an in the early '80s the air was rotten most days, but it's much worse now.
I'm especially interested to see that the US State Department has this "Mission" site that includes only China. That seems peculiar. Clicking on the "Missions" link at the bottom of the page leads only to a variant of the same page, and changing the URL from "1" to "2" brings in a Chinese language page. Interesting--but what about other countries??
But it leads to this one of the EPA's take on air quality in the USA: https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi
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Steve Kessinger - Jul 29,2017
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It's been interesting, Don. Mike Robbins has also spent a lot of time in China, (Hi from Chengdu, Mike!) and Dan's photos really drive home the difference. I remember a few years ago I did a 3 day layover in Beijing, and something kept bugging me until it hit me during a walk: I never saw any urban wildlife there. No sparrows, squirrels, etc. Every time I've gone there since I've looked, zippo. OTOH, I do see them in Hangzhou, Xi'an, Shanghai, and even in Chengdu so there's hope. But I've never seen any in Beijing.
It's a shame because it's beautiful country with wonderful people, I could easily see Dan taking a SeaRey and narrating enough adventures to keep us enthralled for years.
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