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Mile 14.7 - RBD Small Dunes
14.7 RBD Small Dunes Small sand dunes form here in low water, several hundred yards below the mouth of Turner’s Bayou.
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Mile 14.5 - LBD Cypress Point
14.5 LBD Cypress Point Good camping or picnicking can be found at Cypress Point on sandy willow bars up to bank full stage 30 SG, and on top of the tall collapsing muddy banks even higher, maybe up above flood stage 35 SG. Small forest behind provides great protection
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Mile 13.2 - RBD Porcupine Point
13.2 RBD Porcupine Point A high bluff of sand with an inlet behind it is found at Lone Tree Point, making a beautiful campsite at all water levels, with good protection from winds or storms. There is a wetlands behind Porcupine Point, which becomes connected to the river around
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Mile 13.0 - Miles 13-20: Atchafalaya Squiggles
13 - 20 Atchafalaya Squiggles Between miles 13 and 20 the river meanders through four tight bends of the river around four points. Tow pilots call these “the squiggles.” For tow pilots pushing a heavy load it requires a good bit of maneuvering to get safely through the squiggles, especially
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Mile 12.8 - LBD Fairfield Landing
12.8 LBD Fairfield Landing 12.8 LBD McCrea Lake
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Mile 12.5 - LBD Marine Bayou
12.5 LBD Marine Bayou Marine Bayou evolves out of Horse Bayou which is formed from Bayou Thornton and Bayou Fisher. Now cut off from the river by the levee it is forced southward to Middle Bayou which joins Starks Bayou, which flows through Hog Lake as Lake Bayou.
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Mile 12.2 - LBD McCrea Landing
12.2 LBD McCrea Landing
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Mile 10.6 - LBD Small Dune
10.6 LBD Small Dune
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Mile 10.1 - Williams Landing
10.1 Williams Landing
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Mile 11.0 - 9 - 11 RBD Odenburg Island Dikes
9 - 11 RBD Odenburg Island Dikes The Odenburg Island Dikes create a series of 4-5 pockets where sand accumulates above and below the dikes to form good protected campsites in low and medium water levels, up to around 20 SG. 11 LBD Jacobry Landing
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Mile 201.0 - USACE 2012 Atchafalaya River and Outlets to Gulf of Mexico
USACE 2012 Atchafalaya River and Outlets to Gulf of Mexico USACE 2012 Atchafalaya River and Outlets to Gulf of Mexico Navigation Chart Folio, 6th Edition http://www2.mvn.usace.army.mil/ENG/EDSD/mapbooks/atch_nav_2012_map.asp Louisiana Geological Survey Atchafalaya Basin Map In addition to the USACE
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Rivergator Atchafalaya River Appendix 1:
Rivergator Atchafalaya River Appendix 1: Sources Contributing writers: Mark River Peoples Wolf E. Staudinger Books: Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995 2004, Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi by Martin Reuss The Atchafalaya River Basin: History and Ecology of