Overnight beach parking signage indicated that was available for $20 per night, so $5 dollars less than slips. Overall experience was better except for tearing up my lower unit/destroyed prop on wing dams, Tim and I limping back from prescot at no wake speed, and returning to TI to find my rented slip occupied by others in the group. Blame our lack of experience on the river, never been past the sand pile. Went up OK following group, but everyone was gone when we got Tim running. I think we were trying to avoid the big boats, and got too far out of channel, too choppy to see water ripples of dams, and simply not accustomed to wing dams under water. Mo river wings are well above water or the current would simply wash them away. I guess we figured we would be ok nearly in the center of the river, but apoearantly not. We decided we would not make good company Saturday night, so we stayed at the rv. Most everyone was gone Sunday morning when we stopped by to say goodbye. We should be back next year, likely with a GPS ap to keep us safe. Was good to see everyone, not enough time to catch up well as we would like. Thank you Shawn etal for the nice houseboat cruise, quite a highlight of the trip. Michael.