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Mile 35.6 - RBD Bass Enterprises Production Co., Cox Bay Field, West Bank Crew Boat Landing

35.6 RBD Bass Enterprises Production Co., Cox Bay Field, West Bank Crew Boat Landing

Mile 39.0 - RBD - Freeport Sulphur Company

39 RBD - Freeport Sulphur Company The Freeport Sulphur Company established logistics, refining, storage and shipping operations here to support its nearby Frasch Process sulphur mine at Lake Grande Ecaille. The Grande Ecaille sulphur mine, about 10 miles to the southwest out in the marsh, was the largest sulphur deposit

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Mile 39.7 - LBD Nestor Canal

39.7 LBD Nestor Canal You could find access to the Gulf vie Nestor Canal and the Back Levee Canal to which it connects. But the Nestor Canal is cut off from river by gated entry. Would require portage.

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Mile 39.4 - 39.4 - 38.8 RBD Freeport-McMoran Sulphur Company

39.4 - 38.8 RBD Freeport-McMoran Sulphur Company Welcome to Port Sulphur, once the world’s largest sulphur mine. You may look around at all the flat marshy country stretching as far as the eye can see in all directions and wonder to yourself, “sulphur?” and “mine?” “But there

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Mile 42.8 - LBD Huling Low Water Harbor

42.8 LBD Huling Low Water Harbor A small harbor emerges here in low water behind some rip-rap above the Huling Light 42.8 LBD. In the Fall of 2015 a giant pile of driftwood had accumulated here, looking like a giant beaver lodge from the distance. As with all

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Mile 43.0 - RBD Happy Jack Primitive Boat Ramp: Final Resupply?

43 RBD Happy Jack Primitive Boat Ramp: Final Resupply? A gravel road runs over the levee from LA Hwy 23 to a primitive one lane boat ramp at the North end of the town of Port Sulphur. Ideal resupply place! 2-hour cafe nearby, and full-service grocery store! Please be advised,

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Mile 43.1 - RBD Happy Jack

43.1 RBD Happy Jack Happy Jack, like its name suggests, is a little piece of paradise in the Louisiana Delta below New Orleans, and this is supported by a website with the same name. The Who could have written their song about this location: "Happy Jack wasn'

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Mile 44.0 - LBD Mardi Gras Pass

44 LBD Mardi Gras Pass Four miles to Law Bay. First of the many exits to the Gulf of Mexico. Good flow at all water levels. Superlative birding and wildlife viewing. Mardi Gras Pass leads to Back Levee Canal and Bayou Law, quickest route to Gulf Follow Bayou Law to

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Mile 44.4 - LBD Bohemia Beach

44.4 LBD Bohemia Beach Best all-weather camping and picnicking below New Orleans. Good up to 8NO gage, questionable after that, completely underwater at 12NO gage. Last big beach on the Lower Mississippi River. At the end of the roads and levees on the east bank of the Mississippi River

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Mile 44.5 - LBD Pointe a la Hache

44.5 LBD Pointe a la Hache French explorers named this point, using a French phrase that meant "Point of the Axe." A map made in 1765 called it "Hatchet Point." The mainline levee system on the east bank of the Lower Mississippi terminates at Pointe

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Mile 48.6 - Ferry Landing/The Town of Pointe a la Hache

48.6 Ferry Landing/The Town of Pointe a la Hache Pull into the ferry landing for access into Pointe a la Hache, but be sure to defer right of way to the ferry boat -- this is an active landing! US Post Office is located close by over the

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Mile 48.6 - LBD - 48.6 RBD Pointe a la Hache Ferry

48.6 LBD - 48.6 RBD Pointe a la Hache Ferry This is the last ferry service on the Lower Mississippi River. This is not surprising, since Pointe a la Hache is the end of road along the East Bank of the Mississippi River, and also, the end of