Way down south in Nawlins

It's 5 am on Friday 1st March and we're about to dock in New Orleans. We've been sailing along the mighty Mississippi since 9pm last night, it's still to dark to see much yet, but we have been passing lots of oil, or gas rigs in the river since we entered it's mouth.
Also the Mississippi is longer, wider and deeper than I realised as Oriana is a big ship at about 70,000 tons and we've been steaming along the river for almost eight hours and we're not there yet.
I'll be going down to get our immigration passes soon so I'll have more to report later.