Click logo to return to www.greatriver.com ...Steamboats, houseboats and fantastic sunsets offer only a peek at life along the Mississippi River valley! Small boat cruising is king along the river. Small boats include paddlewheelers, houseboats, and day cruising. There are few overnight cruises available, but several of the small cruising boats offer overnights in hotels along the river. Check out the JBS, the Twilight, and Celebration Cruise Lines. 
CONCISE INDEX to TRAVEL INSIGHT FEATURES for the MISSISSIPPI RIVER and other great world waterways.
Waterway Cruise Reports by Pat and Richard Middleton

 

 

BIRDING EXCURSIONS


 

 

 

Wings Over the Platte River... Birding Report on the Sandhill Cranes near Grand Island, Nebraska  (click Crane Photo left, to view story)               Nearly Every year Sandhill Cranes return to the Upper Mississippi River in Mid-March. But one of the great birding spectacles of all time is in Nebraska!
Mike Forsberg Photo

 

 The Rhone River Delta and the French Camargue Map of the Rhone River Delta, France

France is a country full of distinctive "regions" and one of the least visited is the Camargue Region of Southern France. This is a major winter destination for the PINK FLAMINGO.

Also tour the Petit Rhone in an authentic steamboat, stay at a "dude ranch" and work the bulls with the Gardians!

 

 

Birding and Beaching in Panama.  Sunrise over the Pacific, wildlife and birds such as we only dreamed of in Costa Rica and the Amazon... We've just returned from an excursion to Panama combined one week at the Playa Blanca all inclusive resort with a week in Panama's rainforest with a group of Midwestern birders. We posted our pictures online,  go ahead a take a look! We enjoyed the beach as well as we did the birding... plus $500 each member of the birding group went to support a bird banding station we visited in a national preserve.

 

 

Birding in the Riparian Habitats of SE Arizona.
           
 We recently visited the San Pedro River Basin in Southeast Arizona. Like the Bosque del Apache and the Platte River in Nebraska, wetlands in Arizona are home to thousands of wintering Sandhill Cranes and other birds.  
Riparian = water-dependant environments

 

Click photo to see our birding/whaling excursion to San Jose del Cabo  
San Jose del Cabo on the Sea of Cortez!   Estuary Birding and WHALES...

Click Photo to see story!

 

ALASKA   FRANCE   GERMANY   CANADA   SOUTH AMERICA and GALAPAGOS ISL.,
UNITED STATES MAINLAND
CHINA   MEXICO, CARIBBEAN   
SPECIALTY TRAVEL: BIRDING   TRAIN JOURNEYS   HIKING   FERRY TRAVEL   RIVER CRUISING

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