Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Crossing Mississippi

Mention the State of Mississippi together with close Americans probable mean value of Delta cotton fiber fields or beautiful Gulf beaches bracing for the side past times side tropical tempest or hurricane.  But close of the State is covered past times wood together with woodlands, a fact that I confirmed every bit nosotros traveled through Mississippi yesterday.

Returning to Missouri, nosotros entered Mississippi westward of Mobile, Alabama, together with exited the State only due south of Memphis, Tennessee.  From the Alabama edge to Hattiesburg, nosotros undulated through the De Soto National Forest, crossing the Chickasawhay together with Leaf Rivers, tributaries of the Pascagoula which enters the Gulf of Mexico.  Between Hattiesburg together with Jackson, the terrain leveled out every bit nosotros crossed the "pine belt" earlier reaching the Pearl River, which too flows to the Gulf.

North of Jackson, woodlands all the same predominate but are broken past times small-scale farms together with ranches together with past times wetlands along the Big Black River together with the upper tributaries of the Yazoo River (all of which menstruation westward to the Mississippi).  On both sides of the Coldwater River, the northernmost of those waterways, wide swamplands had attracted hundreds of neat egrets, providing the natural highlight of our journeying through the State.  

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