Jennifer's folks live in the Southern Illinois/ St. Louis area, so we made a roadtrip to visit. I wanted to get a closer look at the Mississippi River and the economically challenged town of ESL (pop. 30,000) on the east bank. We had to trespass railroad property and hop the floodwall to even see the river. Once over the wall, we saw that the river bank was littered with bricks of all description, so I photographed a few.
These curious items were on the beach; I think they look like dolphin skeletons. They in fact are insulators for high voltage lines overhead. They had a date of 1983 stencilled on each grey disc.
