River Log section: Atchafalaya River
Atchafalaya River
115.1 American Pass American Pass flows into the Atchafalaya, bringing with it sweetwater refreshened by the thousands of miles of bayous, bays and backwaters the comprise the heart of the Atchafalaya Basin. [Add the wetlands connection blurb!]
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113 RBD Little Island Pass Little Island Pass is the widest and potentially most common of the five passes, but still more interesting than the Main Channel. Three miles long, it separates Little Island from Middle Island. Main Channel Atchafalaya River The Main Channel Atchafalaya River takes six miles in
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112.5 RBD Three Island Pass Enter Three Island Pass at 112.5 right bank descending and enjoy the gentle wandering channel as it flows eastward between Morgan Island and Middle Island. Three Island Pass is about 3 miles long.
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111.7 RBD Lower Atchafalaya River The Lower Atchafalaya River is the smallest of the five possible routes. You will find it by first descending the Riverside Pass 3/4 mile below Main Channel. Bear right into Riverside Pass at 111.7 right bank descending and then take the first
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111.7 RBD Riverside Pass Riversaide Pass gently meanders six miles in a broad arc southeasterly and then northeasterly along the West Protection Levee to return to the Main Channel Atchafalaya at Stouts Point, 117 RBD.
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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