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11.5 LBD Baptiste Collette Bayou (9 miles to reach Gulf of Mexico. Heavy traffic. Not recommended.) * * Fimbel Pass * Emeline Pass * Heavy Traffic * Numerous Oil Derricks & Platforms Everyone knows that the Mississippi River flows south to the Gulf of Mexico, right? Wrong! Not always, anyway. The Mississippi flows towards
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11.5 LBD Sandbar at Mouth of Baptiste Collette Bayou Several small sandbars form here at the mouth of Baptiste Collette Bayou LBD behind a protective wall of rock. Great campsite for small parties with easy access to Venice. Best camping close to Venice. Rock dike forms protective harbor around
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11.9 RBD Bar Pilot’s Association The Associated Branch Pilots (Bar Pilots) for the Port of New Orleans is an association of professional pilots who guide ocean-going vessels of all sizes and descriptions from the Gulf of Mexico through the narrow channels of Southwest Pass and the Mississippi River
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12.5 LBD Un-Named Pass Hunting Lodge at mouth of this Un-Named Pass. 3-4 miles of paddling to reach Grand Bay via Alexis Bay with many shallow places to push through and maneuver around.
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14.5 LBD Un-Named Pass Un-Named Pass 2-3 miles to reach Grand Bay. Sandy dunes covered with grass and scrubby vegetation are found in harbor formed by rip-rap at entrance from main river. Possible picnicking and camping on dune tops in low water and low tides, but known habitat for
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15.5 LBD Un-Named Pass Un-Named Pass 1 mile to reach Grand Bay. Sandy dunes covered with grass and scrubby vegetation are found in harbor formed at entrance, creating possible picnic and campsites in low water and low tides.
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16 LBD Olga Pass 2-4 miles to Grand Bay, Spanish Bay, or other open waters of Breton Sound. Between West Bank 17 and 16 there five openings are located in succession going into five passes which splinter into other passes, including Fresh Water Bayou, Jurjevich Canal, Olga Pass and Valer
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18 LBD St. Anne’s Pass 3 miles to Coquille Point Follow St. Anne’s Pass three miles to Little Coquille Bay, or Grande Coquille Bay. The open beaches of Coquille Point are found between the two bays. Coquille Point could be a good camp, but only in calm weather
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18.5 - 12.2 Boothville Anchorage
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19.6 LBD St. Phillip’s Bend Pass There are a multitude of branching distributary passes to follow from St. Phillip’s Bend Pass, you could follow any of them to reach the Gulf and then easily paddle back. As with Harvey Pass this could be an interesting side trip,
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19.9 LBD Harvey Pass 2-3 miles to the open beaches of Raccoon Point on Breton Sound. Harvey Pass carries water off the Mississippi below Fort St. Philip through a convoluted series of channels, oil pipeline canals, and bays to the Gulf at the edge of Raccoon Point. Raccoon Point
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20 RBD Fort Jackson Paddlers can make landing on a rocky landing directly downstream of the Louisiana Responder, or pull up directly below ramparts of the fort, also a rocky landing. If these rough landings don’t fit your temperament, keep downstream another 200 yards to find a much softer