Day Ten

During the next stretch of the river we passed inumerable tows, the largest of which pushed 35 barges! We virtually flew down river, enjoying the push of the rapid current. Leaving Hoppies, we traveled 110 miles downstream to a cut off the river called Little River Diversion Canal, just south of Cape Girardeau, MO.
We anchored out here overnight with four other boats, all of which we had seen at Hoppies. It was a great anchorage and one the very few overnight possibilities on the Mississippi.