Images of the Mississippi

Images of the Mississippi

Here are some photos of the Mississippi River in and around Elmore's hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. For information on paddling the Mississippi at Memphis, click here.

Martha Kelly beaches her boat for a picnic on the West Palm Beach sandbar across the river from downtown Memphis. Photo by Elmore Holmes.

Carol Lee Royer, Wayne Lichliter, Elmore Holmes, and Sharon Lichliter toast the new year on the last day of 2003. Photo by Joe Royer.

Martha Kelly negotiates the roiling high water beneath the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Elmore Holmes. Gateway Arch St. Louis

Picnic across from downtown Memphis Elmore Holmes and Meghan Carr take advantage of a picnic table on a patch of high ground amid flooded farmland across from downtown Memphis. Photo by Martha Kelly.

Elmore Holmes enjoys a little late-afternoon downtime at his campsite during an overnight trip from Drummonds, Tennessee, to Memphis. Photo by Martha Kelly.

A group of Memphis Whitewater paddlers makes a mid-morning trip from Shelby Forest to downtown Memphis. Photo by Leslye Koch.

Martha Kelly paddles by the Hickman Bar upstream of Memphis on a bright, hot morning in May, 2006. Photo by Elmore Holmes.

As the sun sets over the Arkansas bottomlands, a towboat cruises by the Densford Bar near Shelby Forest, headed for Memphis and points south. Photo by Elmore Holmes.

The dock at Harbortown Marina is covered in snow on a frigid day in February, 2003. Photo by Elmore Holmes.

Sub-freezing temperatures mean ice on the deck during a paddling session. Photo by Joe Royer.
Joe Royer snapped this photo of the Tunica Riverpark as he completed a mid-winter trip from Memphis to Tunica, Mississippi, a distance of about 40 miles.

On a much warmer day, a group of turtles suns itself on a log in Memphis Harbor. Photo by Elmore Holmes.

In June of 2003, the river rose to its highest level in the last ten years or so: 38.2 feet on the Memphis gauge. Joe Royer marked the occasion by taking this picture of the Memphis skyline from the middle of an Arkansas wheat field.

Martha Kelly navigates the tricky currents just below the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. Photo by Elmore Holmes.

Stoically, Denis Lessard presses on through the mid-summer heat somewhere between Memphis and Greenville, Mississippi. Denis and his daughter Myriam, residents of Quebec City, spent the summer of 2006 paddling a canoe from the mouth of the Fox River in Lake Michigan to New Orleans. Photo by Myriam Lessard.

Linda Weghorst heads out of Memphis Harbor and onto the Mississippi River for a Saturday morning workout. Photo by Elmore Holmes.

Elmore Holmes paddles flooded Arkansas farmland across from downtown Memphis. Photo by Martha Kelly. High water across from downtown Memphis

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Martha Kelly beaches her boat for a picnic on the West Palm Beach sandbar across the river from downtown Memphis. Photo by Elmore Holmes.
	Carol Lee Royer, Wayne Lichliter, Elmore Holmes, and Sharon Lichliter toast the new year on the last day of 2003. Photo by Joe Royer.
Martha Kelly negotiates the roiling high water beneath the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. Photo by Elmore Holmes.
	Elmore Holmes and Meghan Carr take advantage of a picnic table on a patch of high ground amid flooded farmland across from downtown Memphis. Photo by Martha Kelly.

Elmore Holmes enjoys a little late-afternoon downtime at his campsite during an overnight trip from Drummonds, Tennessee, to Memphis. Photo by Martha Kelly.
	A group of Memphis Whitewater paddlers makes a mid-morning trip from Shelby Forest to downtown Memphis. Photo by Leslye Koch.

	Martha Kelly paddles by the Hickman Bar upstream of Memphis on a bright, hot morning in May, 2006. Photo by Elmore Holmes.
As the sun sets over the Arkansas bottomlands, a towboat cruises by the Densford Bar near Shelby Forest, headed for Memphis and points south. Photo by Elmore Holmes.
	The dock at Harbortown Marina is covered in snow on a frigid day in February, 2003. Photo by Elmore Holmes.
Sub-freezing temperatures mean ice on the deck during a paddling session. Photo by Joe Royer.	Joe Royer snapped this photo of the Tunica Riverpark as he completed a mid-winter trip from Memphis to Tunica, Mississippi, a distance of about 40 miles.
	On a much warmer day, a group of turtles suns itself on a log in Memphis Harbor. Photo by Elmore Holmes.
In June of 2003, the river rose to its highest level in the last ten years or so: 38.2 feet on the Memphis gauge. Joe Royer marked the occasion by taking this picture of the Memphis skyline from the middle of an Arkansas wheat field.
	Martha Kelly navigates the tricky currents just below the Hernando DeSoto Bridge. Photo by Elmore Holmes.
Stoically, Denis Lessard presses on through the mid-summer heat somewhere between Memphis and Greenville, Mississippi. Denis and his daughter Myriam, residents of Quebec City, spent the summer of 2006 paddling a canoe from the mouth of the Fox River in Lake Michigan to New Orleans. Photo by Myriam Lessard.
	Linda Weghorst heads out of Memphis Harbor and onto the Mississippi River for a Saturday morning workout. Photo by Elmore Holmes.
Elmore Holmes paddles flooded Arkansas farmland across from downtown Memphis. Photo by Martha Kelly.