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Great picnicking and sight-seeing at south end (access from boat ramp). Visitor’s Center. Possible camping, but must gain USACE permission first. Bonnet Carre Spillway makes a great rest stop and site visit at an important point of interest for paddlers (Visitor’s Center atop Spillway Gates on South side)
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Beautiful low/med water camping, with storm protection from all directions, but goes under around 12NO. Newly Discovered Island! Perfect for paddlers seeking refuge, but very mosquito prone in its season, and only good in low and medium water levels. Completely underwater around 12NO. Bonnet Carre Island is the very
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Good low/med water picnic or camp place, highest sandbar might be dry up to 17NO. The cut-out bank at Marquez creates some powerful eddies that sometimes reach into the main channel and can force you into oncoming freighters or cause you to get spun around, depending which side of
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Paddler’s Paradise: great all weather, all season, all water level picnicking or camping, but contact Poche Family first about camping. Long distance paddlers have a big surprise waiting for them at Poche Park. Poche Park is an unusual sandbar piled high along the East Bank (left bank descending) just
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Beautiful low water sandbar perched in quiet bend of the river. Picnicking or camping would only be possible in low water levels, below 20BR. There is a wonderful calm from the hub-bub of industry as the river rolls through Rich Bend around College Point. If it is that magical time
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Highest sandbar in area, dry up to flood stage 35 BR, but popular fishing and party spot. oint Houmas has the highest sandbars (good to flood stage 35 BR) and the best predictable camping within this stretch (until Poche Park in Paulina) but is also vehicle accessible and a known
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Possible all-weather, all-water camping at point, up to 30BR, but beware nearby dirt removal operation. Quieter low water sandbar at lower end. Bringier Point allows the river to make a tight bend to the north a couple of miles past the town of Donaldsonville. Although not as tight as Smoke
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Good resupply place but rough access in low/med water levels. Good picnic spot, possible camping on grassy fields below levee. Donaldsonville could be a good resupply and meeting place for paddlers on the Lower Miss. Make your landing wherever possible in the open area to the south of the
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Possible alternate route for paddlers to the Gulf of Mexico (110 miles) Every thousand years or so the Mississippi takes a new route to the Gulf of Mexico. In one of its last generations, this was the main channel of the Mississippi. Today Bayou Lafourche remains as a winding tree-lined
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Highest point in area, good up to flood stage BR 35, but small dune. Eighty-One Mile Point boasts the highest bluff of sand below Manchac Point, and probably stays dry up to flood stage 35 on the Baton Rouge Gage. Best stop place is on the sandbar at the exact
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Possible camping or picnicking up to 25BR, but noisy place. Philadelphia Point offers beautiful picnicking on a long shelf of sand backed by willow trees (which should be dry up to 25BR) and reaches is highest prominences around 180 RBD, and then descends gradually towards 181 RBD (dry up to
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Nurdles: What Are Nurdles? Below Baton Rouge you might have noticed the beach strewn with tiny clearish white plastic blobs about the size of a tear drop. Maybe you saw them during your walks along the shoreline; they are especially noticeable at water’s edge with other micro-detritus like bits