River Log section: Baton Rouge to Venice
Baton Rouge to Venice
24.4 - 23 RBD Ostrica Anchorage 24-23 LBD Neptune Pass Three openings in rip-rap allow quick exit from storms, waves and wind, and high banks behind might make for good camping. There are three openings around the Neptune Light on the East Bank between 24 and 23 LBD. Paddlers
Baton Rouge to Venice
24.5 RBD Motto's Basin Paddlers looking for an off-channel access can find it West Bank 24.5 RBD at Motto's Basin, which is a rare protected harbor for mooring miscellaneous commercial-and-recreational small craft. No boat ramp on site, harbor slips only. You’ll find timber
Baton Rouge to Venice
24.6 RBD Abandoned Mooring At write time (Dec 2015) an abandoned industrial mooring area in a protected inlet is found right bank descending at 24.6, just above Motto’s Basin Harbor. Paddlers could pull in here and for a unique off-channel place to take refuge from storms or
Baton Rouge to Venice
25.2 LBD Ostrica Pass Ostrica Pass is controlled by the Ostrica Lock & Dam. Ostrica Lock is owned by the State of Louisiana, and was opened to navigation in 1952. It provides passage from the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, via Breton Sound. The lock at Ostrica is
Baton Rouge to Venice
25.2 RBD Buras Landing Boat Ramp There is a rough but very usable boat ramp at 25.2 RBD where LA Highway 11 comes close to the river above the town of Buras. Paddlers in need of water, ice, or convenience store items could find it with a short
Baton Rouge to Venice
27.5 - 24.7 LBD Chevron Company (Oil & Butane) Another landmark at the end of your expedition: the last refinery! Needless to say you won’t want to camp anywhere near here. Avoid camping anywhere along Point Pleasant in south winds. The smell alone will make you sick.
Baton Rouge to Venice
29 RBD Empire Locks Access to Adam’s Bay, Barataria Bay, and beaches along West Bay of the Gulf of Mexico. Heavily trafficked by fishermen. The Empire Lock and Waterway connect the Lower Mississippi with the Gulf of Mexico via Adams Bay. The lock, built by the Corps of Engineers,
Baton Rouge to Venice
28 - 31 LBD Point Pleasant Good low/med water camping on grassy shelves. Paddlers will find several miles of natural wild shoreline below Point Pleasant on the East Bank, from 28 - 31 LBD. If you seek a campsite, stop at the first good-looking place you find. Further down
Baton Rouge to Venice
30.4 RBD Plaquemine Towing Corp. Mooring and Banta mile 207 Fleet
Baton Rouge to Venice
32 - 28 Tropical Bend Funny Note: on the USACE there is a typo that reads “Tropical Blend” at this point. Maybe that’s what the USACE map-makers were mixing up as they proof-read this 2007 edition of the Lower Mississippi Maps?
Baton Rouge to Venice
35.2 LBD Pointe a la Hache Relief Outlet Two monstrous box-shaped motors 3-stories tall straddle the riverbank here, for unknown reasons. Are these water pumps? They look like a box fans on steroids -- like something gone wild from another dimension. Like air boats made for dinosaurs. Woody Allen
Baton Rouge to Venice
35.6 RBD Bass Enterprises Production Co., Cox Bay Field, West Bank Crew Boat Landing