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109.5 Duck Lake Channel You could follow this convoluted channel to Duck Lake, via many twists and turns along canal cut by oil companies in former days. Some of the canals have become Cajun houseboat hideaways, with dozens of houseboats floating in almost suburban grid pattern. Use Google Earth
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109 RBD Cypress Pass Back Channel Tired of the Main Channel? Dive into a narrow back channel at 109 right bank descending and enjoy a three-mile meandering passage through willows, hardwoods and swampland. Return to Main Channel at mile 111.5 RBD. 109 Southern Natural Gas Co 12” gas pipeline
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108.9 Southern Natural Gas Co 12” natural gas pipeline 108.9 Southern Natural Gas Co 6” natural gas pipeline
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108.8 Southern Natural Gas Co 12” natural gas pipeline
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108.7 Exxon Pipeline 8” oil gas pipeline
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108.3 RBD Shortcut to Sixmile Lake Paddlers can enter the bayou at 108.3 right bank descending for an easy entrance to the bottom of Sixmile Lake and passage into the Wax Lake Outlet. At any water levels above low water there will be good flow through here, and
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108.2 Koch Gateway Pipeline Company 30” natural gas pipeline
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107.9 Exxon Gas Transmission Company 20” gas pipeline You can follow the canal carved through the cypress swampland by Exxon Gas Transmission Company left bank descending at mile 107.9 to reach Bayou Boulee and access Flat Lake via Big Bayou Joe. Or you can return to Main Channel
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107.1 Central Louisiana Electrical Company Aerial Crossing
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105 LBD Blue Point Chute: Shortcut to Cypress Wonderland Blue Point Chute runs northeasterly off the main channel at LBD 105. This wide waterway flows at most levels down to low water, and provides an easy route for to follow out of the main channel Atchafalaya into the cypress swamp
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103.8 LBD Narrow Bayou leading to East Grand Lake This bayou is only accessible during higher water levels, although paddlers could portage over the shallow entrance that is dry at medium and low water levels. We mention this here because there is an interesting high ground on the inside
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102 RBD Sixmile Lake: Access to Wax Lake Outlet There is a mile-wide opening on the right bank descending that will have some inward flow, and will lead paddlers to Sixmile Lake. At times 10% of the river flow goes this direction. Sixmile lake exits through the Wax Lake Outlet,