Birdsfoot Delta
Mile 12.1 - -12.1 LBD Tiny Bayou Opening
-12.1 LBD Tiny Bayou Opening A narrow and short bayou can be followed (at high tide or higher water levels) for easy access to Upper South Pass Island on the ocean side.
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Mile 11.8 - -11.8 LBD Bayou Opening (to Backside of Upper South Pass Island)
-11.8 LBD Bayou Opening (to Backside of Upper South Pass Island) If the wind is blowing hard out of the south or southwest and you don’t want to go out all of the way into the open water and chance the big waves, you can cut through this
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Mile 11.0 - -11 RBD High Adventure Marina, Port Eads
-11 RBD High Adventure Marina, Port Eads High Adventure Marina at Port Eads http://porteads.com/ 504-308-1602 peter@highadventurecompany.com Reports river angel Layne Logue: “In April 2014, High Adventure Company built a Marina, Fishing Camp and Restaurant at the Port Eads Lighthouse (1.8 miles from the South Pass
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Mile 11.0 - -11 LBD Disappearing Banks
-11 LBD Disappearing Banks From here down to the Gulf the Pass a Loutre left bank is fast sinking into the Ocean due to disappearing lands and rising oceans.
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Mile 11.0 - -11 RBD Port Eads
-11 RBD Port Eads South Pass also features a newly built lodge near the lighthouse at its terminus where paddlers can find accommodations and food. Port Eads was completely devastated by Hurricane Katrina. All that remained of the original structure was the lighthouse. Due to the economic importance to Louisiana,
Birdsfoot Delta
Mile 10.0 - -4 to -10 RBD East Bay Bayou Openings
-4 to -10 RBD East Bay Bayou Openings Between -4 BHP and -10 BHP there are fourteen small and medium sized openings into bayous that flow into the East Bay in between South Pass and Southwest Pass, which gives you dear paddler a multitude of routes to follow for your
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Mile 10.0 - -10 RBD Picayune Bayou
-10 RBD Picayune Bayou In high winds out of the south or east you could duck through Picayune Bayou and cross a shallow estuary over to a long sandy/muddy spit that parallels the west side of the South Pass. Look at Google maps for best route to follow.
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Mile 20.2 - -20.2 LBD End of the Jetty/End of the River
-20.2 LBD End of the Jetty/End of the River At mile 20.2 below Head of Passes the last pile of rock falls away to the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. This is the very last solid piece of earth found along the Lower Mississippi River,
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Mile 20.1 - -20.1 LBD Southwest Pass Lighthouse
-20.1 LBD Southwest Pass Lighthouse
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Mile 18.0 - -18.0 LBD Associated Branch Pilots, Southwest Pass Station Wharf
-18.0 LBD Associated Branch Pilots, Southwest Pass Station Wharf After the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the branch pilots and the U.S. Coast Guard established two decontamination stations to remove oil from vessels headed from the Gulf to the Mississippi River, and one of them was here at this strategic
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Mile 14.5 - -14.5 LBD Burrwood Bayou (Bottom Entrance)
-14.5 LBD Burrwood Bayou (Bottom Entrance) On your return paddle back up the SW Pass you might want to jump into Burrwood Bayou for calm waters and very little flow. Off-channel route brings you 10 miles up the SW Pass where you will have to return to Main Channel
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Mile 14.5 - -14.5 RBD Dredge Piles
-14.5 RBD Dredge Piles Opposite Burrwood Bayou some humongous piles of dredge material spill out over the right bank descending bank, several hundred acres in size.