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Giant privately-owned island whose top end begins almost directly opposite the base of the First Chickasaw Bluff. At low water possible campsites emerge from the muddy sandy lowlands near RBD 777-778, these quickly disappear as the river rises. By medium water there will be a noticeable flow into its back
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As you paddle around Craighead Point RBD 779 (opposite the Old Channel of the Forked Deer) you will be rewarded with one of the most arresting views along the Lower Mississippi: the First Chickasaw Bluff. It seems like the entire river slams up against its face. This cliff-lined muddy bluff
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WARNING: There are two significant falls at low/medium waters, one at top end and one at bottom end of Island 30. See below for more description. Island 30 creates an intriguing back door entrance to Osceola. If the water is high enough (above 25 on the Caruthersville Gauge) and
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Now comes the payback for all the fun river loops! After exiting the wonderful looping river bends of Tamm’s, Barfield, and Island 25, the river makes a dreadfully long run with no bends, all the way down to Plum Point/Osceola, and the downstream paddler is confronted with a
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When the river is above 20 CuG the water begins to slowly move into the back channel of Island 26, and by 25 with some flow, and by 30 with good flow. Stay bank right RBD as you come around Island 25 and look for the hole-in-the-wall opening near mile
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Island 25 has been absorbed into the mainland around Tomato Arkansas. Low water camping only on shifting sandbars that accumulate around the Is 25 Dikes. Once you come around the Bend of Island 25 the downstream paddler is confronted with a numbing sixteen-mile long straight shot to the southwest, the
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You might spend several hours completely circumnavigating Barfield Bend during low water. The main channel here measures ten miles long and wraps completely around Nebraska Point. If you are struggling through a head wind, don’t worry too much, it will soon become a tail wind! After leaving similarly shaped
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Bounded by the Mississippi on one side and the Tennessee Loess Bluffs on the other, Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge encompasses the single largest block of bottomland hardwood forest in Tennessee at 25,006 acres. Chickasaw NWR and adjacent lands are known to be important wintering and stop-over areas for a
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The main channel of the Mississippi makes a classic 180 degree bend around Wright’s Point. In your canoe or kayak, you might not appreciate the shape of the channel. But on your map or from the air you will see two distinctively shaped bends called Tamm and further downstream
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During low water you will make a five-mile semi circle to get around the sprawling sandbars of Island 21, and you will want to be alert around the industrious hubbub surrounding Nucor Arkansas Steel & Power Plant found RBD near 824 where coal and iron ore barges dock and smaller
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Archipelago of Islands accumulating along the dikes of Island 20. Canoeists and kayakers in higher water levels can stay RBD below Cottonwood Point (RBD 832.5) and float behind a series of three prominent clumpy islands which have grown up along the wing dams of island 20 and go completely
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After sliding under the bridge and past the Boothspoint Bunge Grain elevator continue on downstream westward and the southwestward around Island 18 where possible sandy high water campsites (up to 30 CuG) are found a high hump mid-channel near 836, at higher water levels keep going for higher sites. At