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417-414 Togo Island Bend & Dikes The Mississippi makes a tight bend at Togo, a one hundred and eighty degree about face. The waters running northwesterly past Big Black Island find themselves turned around at Togo Island and made to exit this bend running southeasterly! That’s some wrangling of
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417-414 RBD Togo Island About a mile below the last bump of sand (during high water) on Newtown, RBD near mile 416, you will find an opening in the wall of willows. This is the entrance to the back channel of Togo Island. Always an interesting place to make a
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
419.6 LBD Lake Karnac The main current swishes around Newtown Bend Sandbar and is propelled outward past several intriguing openings and cuts in the bank, some filled with powerful eddies that you could eddy out into. But there are also several openings along the left bank descending, one at
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421-419 RBD Newtown Bend Sandbar Long beautiful sandbar at low and medium water levels, possible picnic and campsites found along entire length. Newtown sizzles in the summer sun like a slice of fatback in the griddle, and shimmers like an alaskan snowfield by the winter moonlight. In any season it
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423 Diamond Cut-Off Below LeTourneau the canoeist or kayaker enters a five mile southerly stretch and then rounds a right angle bend at Newtown which resolves itself in a northwesterly direction. What was previously a tail wind becomes a side wind or head wind, and vice versa. After all the
Vicksburg to Baton Rouge
405-401 RBD Coffee Point Dikes Great low and medium water camping amongst clumps of dense willow topped dunes, arranged esthetically around the entire length of this bend. Best camping between 10 and 20VG, but still possible up to 25. All islands go completely under around 30VG.
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404 RBD Yucatan Ditch For a safari-like run into the Mississippi River floodplain replete with fishes, amphibians and winged creatures, make a short detour up Yucatan Ditch. Paddle quietly and you will make some remarkable animal encounters. Keep your camera handy. If the river is falling, the ditch runs out.
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407.8 LBD Grand Gulf State Park Grand Gulf State Military Park is well worth the visit. There is no boat ramp here, and no camping, but you can make landing and walk into the park. Pull your canoe or kayak all the way out of the water and carefully
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408.5 LBD Big Black River A dynamic alternate put-in for the Mississippi can be made paddling down the last 13-14 miles of the Big Black River from the boat ramp at the Hwy 61 Bridge. There is always some flow in the Big Black, and no shoals to negotiate.
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414 RBD Palmyra - Togo Island Crossroads At right bank descending 415 the riverbank suddenly yawns up with a big mouth hundreds of yards wide that reveals a watery crossroads where Togo Chute, Palmyra Chute, the Big River Upstream and the Big River Downstream all intersect. A large bay is
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414 RBD The Crossroads A rare river crossroads is created here at the junction of Togo Island, Palmyra Lake and the Main Channel of the Mississippi. From a paddler's perspective this is a watery paradise. Four distinct routes to follow from the same location!
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416 RBD Togo Island Back Channel If the river is high enough to get through the willow forest RBD 416 adventurous paddlers can dive through the constriction and enter the cool shady tree-lined Togo Island Channel which is often full of birds and is a known alligator hangout. At low