Living in an area known as the Seven Rivers Region, La Crosse is influenced by life brought forth from the area's abundance of water. And there are so many rivers here because it is known as the Driftless Area, an area where this part of North America avoided that last 3 glaciations. Today, is obvious, that the Mississippi River brings the big tours from the big boats. And this boat is the American Queen. Probably the largest steam ship still operating along the Mississippi and its tributaries. She seems to get all of the attention. People come dressed in an Antebellum style. They drive, bike, and walk into the park to get a view of the big boat. And I'm pretty sure I saw other boaters slow down to take in the occasion.
To take this photo, I too had to slow down. I normally like a detail shot that is zoomed in on a particular feature of a vessel such as this. But we had clouds with a blue sky. Wonderfully dressed up people and the obvious spectacle of attention that it was. I was able to get a combination of 3 photos for this HDR effect.
You can look them up at www.AmericanQueenSteamboatCompany.com or on twitter @CruiseAQSC and use the tag: #AmericanQueen. Maybe we can convince them to join Instagram?
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