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Redman Point Bar is a small island with lots of character. Its back channel contains landmarks extolled by local mariners with enchanting names like “Washing Machine,” “Pebble Beach,” and “Hole in the Wall,” as described below. Its top end was almost completely blown out during the 1997 flood, after which
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https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e422a7eddf37b2559&msa=0&ll= 35.269448,-90.084801&spn=0.173228,0.225391 http://goo.gl/maps/hYtXg Several long miles downstream of Shelby Forest, after about an hour of paddling, you will encounter the first of a long
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Meeman Shelby Forest State Park straddles the Third Chickasaw Bluff thirteen miles north of Memphis, with nine miles of big river frontage and some of the best examples of the dense temperate jungles that once crowded the Lower Mississippi Valley. The downstream paddler enters the park at the bottom end
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Visit Google Maps while reading about Dean Island: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e4168e0d4ef2771bf&msa=0&ll= 35.44382,-90.018024&spn=0.086427,0.09141 http://goo.gl/maps/mnfqr Note: This google map depicts Dean Island during low water. You can see
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Huge sandbar at low water, small at medium, completely disappears in high water. Best picnicking top end. Not recommended for camping unless darkness is settling on you and you have no other option. Exposed location, difficult access to the shelter of trees and no dependable firewood sources. Avoid camping on
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As you paddle along the Hatchie Bar and then past the mouth of the Hatchie River you will be afforded your first vista of the second natural wonder along this section of river, the 2nd Chickasaw Bluff, sometimes known as Richardson Bluff. Gaze downstream over your vessel towards the towering
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Surrounded by the Randolph Bluffs on one side and the Mississippi River on the other, Angelo Towhead is a low-slung heap of sand and gravel that changes with every high water, sometimes there are giant piles of sand on one side of the dikes, sometimes there are none. Angelo has
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3 mile long towhead good only in low or medium water conditions, goes completely under around 25 CuG. During low water the Hatchie Towhead extends all the way up to the base of the 1st Chickasaw Bluff and can be possibly accessed via Tennessee 87, which dead ends at the