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370 LBD Greens Bayou As you paddle downriver towards Natchez look carefully left bank descending and if you catch it right you will see a narrow intriguing opening cluttered with overhanging willows and steep muddy banks (in med or low water). But if you blink you will miss it! No
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373 - 371 LBD Fairchild (Skull) Island Like all Mississippi River islands Fairchild grows and diminishes with the water level. At high water it is a one-and-a-half mile long willow topped island with scrubby bottoms that are impenetrable in places with swamp privet and vines. At medium its back channel
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
381 - 374 RBD - Waterproof Island Waterproof Island is two giant islands, each several thousand acres big, that have formed like twins, one hugging the other, parallel to the main channel of the river. Each Island is long and narrow, so long that you’ll think it’s just
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Mile 381 - Waterproof Landing Waterproof Landing (AKA Goldman Lower Landing) is a primitive landing located over steep bank just below Farmer's Grain Elevator RBD at mile 381, and made its fame as the start point for the legendary “Halph-the-Phat.” (For more about the “Phat,” keep reading below.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
385.9 LBD Below Brown’s Field Wetlands Curious paddlers and birders will find a glorious wetlands surrounded by rookeries, and full of waders and waterfowl of all sorts, right bank descending at 385.9 RBD. Stay close to the bank below Brown’s Field Islands or you’ll miss
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
390 - 389.5 RBD Brown’s Field Island As soon as you pass Bondurant two large towhead islands appear on the Louisiana side of the river (right bank descending) with an enticing back channel to explore. Upper Island is 3 miles long, and the lower a little over 1
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394 LBD Bruinsburg Landing Bruinsburg Landing was located directly on the Mississippi River, just south of the mouth of the Bayou Pierre. Bruinsburg (now a ghost town) was found three miles up Bayou Pierre. Once an important commercial and military location, nothing remains today of the town or its port.
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
384 LBD - Spithead Towhead Spithead is a giant sand island hugging the inside of the Kempe Bend offering beautiful all weather and all river level camping, exercising the normal precautions for wind and storms. Wonderful place to go tracking, the sand tells the story of who walked by in
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389 LBD Rodney Lake Side Trip When the water is around 30 NG or higher you can cut through the intriguing opening at the topmost Cottage Island, around mile 389 left bank descending, and enter the deep woods surrounding the back channel of Rodney Island No 111. Enter at your
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389 LBD - Rodney Chute Bluff of sand at entrance to Rodney Lake Chute. Good picnicking and camping can be found on Spithead Towhead. Primitive site, no conveniences of any sort.
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389 - 387 LBD Cottage Bend Islands Cottage Bend Islands are visible from upstream by the bluffs of sand on the tops of the islands in low and medium water) and are found left bank descending opposite Brown’s Field Islands a couple of miles below Bondurant. These two willow-topped
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392 LBD Rodney (Ghost Town) Rodney has operated under the flags of five different nations. Originally settled by the French in January 1763 and named Petit Gouffre, meaning Little Gulf, it was later taken by Great Britain as a result of the French and Indian War. Spain would later control