Mouth of the Mississippi in daylight!

[rdemn]

Leaving out of New Orleans down the Mississippi takes eight hours which means it's dark and you would not be able to see the mouth of the Mississippi the same is true on the way back as it's around midnight as you enter the mouth of the Mississippi. Is there anyway that carnival or any other cruise line would consider somehow going through the mouth of the Mississippi in daylight? Maybe going through and turning around like the Panama Canal cruise. And then making it a sea day. What are the possibilities?

 

 

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[asalligo]

I also would really like to see that, but I doubt we ever will.

[cajunfla]

Not really a lot to see. You are in only one channel of the mouth. Look at google map and see how many channels there actually are.

 

You're in open waters, then there are low levee's. I saw it going in and out.

[loanshark]

Use google maps.... not a whole lot to see, except the pilot house on the left as you are going out to sea, and a whole buch of muddy water.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.9289299,-89.4150317,5698m/data=!3m1!1e3

[spleenstomper]

We were delayed once because of a tropical storm. It was cool to say I saw it but it was just rocks jettys and more rock jettys and more rock jettys until there were no more rock jettys

[Teamv]

Use google maps.... not a whole lot to see, except the pilot house on the left as you are going out to sea, and a whole buch of muddy water.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.9289299,-89.4150317,5698m/data=!3m1!1e3[/quote

 

Thanks for posting this! Very interesting. :D

[chengkp75]

Leaving out of New Orleans down the Mississippi takes eight hours which means it's dark and you would not be able to see the mouth of the Mississippi the same is true on the way back as it's around midnight as you enter the mouth of the Mississippi. Is there anyway that carnival or any other cruise line would consider somehow going through the mouth of the Mississippi in daylight? Maybe going through and turning around like the Panama Canal cruise. And then making it a sea day. What are the possibilities?

 

 

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Am I understanding your suggestion that on the last day of the cruise, the ship enters the river during daylight, goes up a ways, turns around, goes out of the river, and then sails around and goes back up the river for disembarkation? Or the same after going down, do this on the first day?

 

The road ends in Venice, which is about 12 miles from the mouth of SW Pass, so there is literally nothing below this, except for Pilottown and the Shell seaplane base, all served by boat. The average elevation of the delta, as far up as Venice, is -3 feet, so there really isn't much "to see" there.

 

Couple of problems. Spaces to turn around in the river are few and far between, especially below Port Sulfur, which is 37 miles upriver (3 hours each way). They might be able to turn in Boothville anchorage, depending on how many ships are there, that is 12 miles upriver. So, the logistics is a problem.

 

Then, they wouldn't allow a ship the size of a cruise ship to turn around at these anchorages without a couple of tugs (just in case), so there would be a cost for the tugs, and getting them down from NOLA and back.

 

Then, each time they entered the river, they are paying for a pilot, and the pilotage is charged by tonnage, so there is even more cost.

 

Long and short of it, no they won't do a tour of the delta.

[Computer Nerd]

We were delayed once because of a tropical storm. It was cool to say I saw it but it was just rocks jettys and more rock jettys and more rock jettys until there were no more rock jettys

 

:'):')

[Purvis1231]

The only way to see the mouth of the Mississippi is if there was some unforeseen delay-coming or going. But on reason the cruise ship sail at night is that there is a lot of traffic on the river and it is safer for the cruise ship and the other river traffic for a large ship to sail at night when there are fewer smaller vessels on the river.