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Confluence point

Sunday, 27. September 2009, 01:46:00

Missouri River, confluence, Mississippi River, photography

I've written here and here about the place where the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers join, the Confluence, but I had never been able to get there until tonight. Edward "Ted" and Pat Jones-Confluence Point State Park has been closed for a few years following extensive flood damage, but, at last, they opened it this summer. (In the top picture, the Missouri is on the left, the Mississippi on the right.)

So I was able to follow a long, winding, gravel road through the corn fields to reach to actual tip of the division between these mighty rivers. Very peaceful it was too, the meeting of two very like-minded bodies of water!

A nice way to get out of the house and get some fresh air and evening sun. Very restorative.

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The confluence from the air

Monday, 22. June 2009, 03:29:05

photography, Missouri River, confluence, Mississippi River ...

I was going through old memory cards getting things together for our upcoming vacation when I found this shot, part of the tail-end of last summer. Taken from the plane as it was coming into Lambert-St. Louis Airport, you can see beneath the bright sunlit clouds the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers joining together.

At the very end they flow in parallel, and the Mississippi makes an abrupt right angle turn to cut off the Missouri.

To make it a little easier to see (there was considerable flooding at that time), I've outlined the Mississippi in yellow and the Missouri in blue.

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