Historic Vicksburg Mississippi
Start: River Mile 453
Finish: River Mile 437
Day Total: 17 Miles
Segment Total: 805
With me needing to jump off the river for a day to head home for our condo closing, today was a low mile paddle. However, it was still challenging, which always makes the time go by quickly.
Since our camp was up the beach nearly a quarter mile, the 5 loads I had to haul from camp to river was time consuming. It added about 45 minutes to the pack-up, but it was nice using none paddling muscles for a change.
The morning was cool and foggy. Very dramatic lighting as you can see from the pictures below. We of course had some head winds, but nothing too bad. Just a nice scenic morning of paddling.
Once we got to Vicksburg, we needed to head up the Yazoo river about 1.5 miles to the city boat ramp. This is also the entrance to the Port of Vicksburg, so there is tons of industry and barge traffic like crazy. We knew all of this ahead of time, no problem. What we didn’t anticipate is the 5 to 7 mph current pouring down the Yazoo, right into us. We had to battle for every inch of forward progress. At times, each paddle stroke moved us just a few inches up river. After 90 miles of really intense work we managed to reach the boat ramp...exhausted!
Our river angel Layne Logue met us at the ramp to transport us to our B & B as well as pick up my rental car. Once we had all the boats and gear organized at the lodging, I bid my paddling brother from a different mother goodbye and told him to “Knuckle Down” and get some work done!
I drove the 450 miles to Nashville, mostly in the rain and arrived at my hotel at 10:00 pm. A quick load of laundry and handing my wet tent out to dry and I’m almost ready to call it a night. Tomorrow is closing in the morning and then a race back to Vicksburg and back on the water on Saturday morning. I’m hoping to get back to Vicksburg in time to do some exploring in this historic river city.
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