River Log section: Atchafalaya River
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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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12.8 LBD Fairfield Landing 12.8 LBD McCrea Lake
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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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12.2 LBD McCrea Landing
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10.6 LBD Small Dune
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10.1 Williams Landing
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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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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: 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
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Rivergator Atchafalaya Appendix 19: Fish Names in Atchafalaya Basin: Fish Names in Atchafalaya Crawfish - That's CRAWfish, if you say CRAYfish in South Louisiana you will give yourself away as a yankee (anyone not from South Louisiana). Gou-Jaune - Flathead (Pylodictis olivaris), "yellow gou" the flathead
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Rivergator Atchafalaya Appendix 18: Boat Names in Atchafalaya Basin: Boat Names in Atchafalaya Vioture - the early French settlers of the Atchafalaya traveled so predominantly by boat that the French word for "carriage" was often used as the general term for boat. Pirogue - short narrow swamp vessel,
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Rivergator Atchafalaya Appendix 17: Definitions for Atchafalaya River: Baton Rouge - "Red Stick" an old boundary marker on top of Istrouma Bluff Batture - land between the levee and the river Bayou - "Bayuk" in Choctaw = "Small Stream." Winding swampy waterway with cypress trees