River Log section: Caruthersville to Memphis
Caruthersville to Memphis
RBD 761.5-757 Dean Island Visit Google Maps while reading about Dean Island: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e4168e0d4ef2771bf&msa=0&ll= 35.44382,-90.018024&spn=0.086427,0.09141 http://goo.gl/maps/mnfqr Note: This google map depicts Dean Island during
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RBD 767 Island 35 Boat Ramp Abandoned ramp. No access. Island has been privatized by landowners in an exclusive hunting club. On river’s edge you might notice an off-white ramshackle dwelling whose porch is collapsing over the rip-rap just upstream of landing. This is the site of a legendary
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RBD 767.6-761.5 Island 35 https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e43a6af952f1925d3&msa=0&ll=35.52105,-89.955711&spn=0.086065,0.180931 http://goo.gl/maps/53RC8 From the main channel of the river 6,000 acre Island 35 seems rather a
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LBD 766-763 Below Richardson Landing Dikes & Bar Huge sandbar at low water, small at medium, completely disappears in high water. Best picnicking top end. Not recommended for camping unless darkness is settling on you and you have no other option. Exposed location, difficult access to the shelter of trees
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LBD 768 Randolph’s Landing/Duvall’s Boat Ramp Wide concrete ramp with huge parking lot, set perpendicular to river over the rip-rap. Parking lot notorious hell-raising party place amongst locals. Do not leave your vehicle overnight. Safeguard all valuables out of sight even if just for a day trip.
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LBD 771-769 The Second Chickasaw Bluff (Richardson Bluff) As you paddle along the Hatchie Bar and then past the mouth of the Hatchie River you will be afforded your first vista of the second natural wonder along this section of river, the 2nd Chickasaw Bluff, sometimes known as Richardson Bluff.
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LBD 771-772 Angelo Towhead Surrounded by the Randolph Bluffs on one side and the Mississippi River on the other, Angelo Towhead is a low-slung heap of sand and gravel that changes with every high water, sometimes there are giant piles of sand on one side of the dikes, sometimes there
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LBD 771 Randolph Landing Directly behind Angelo Towhead is the tiny bluff town of Randolph, which features a bar, a church, and several houses. Poor Randolph, at one time it was the favored location for the major port and city of the area, later superseded by its lowly neighbor to
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LBD 773.5 Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge Lower Hatchie NWR sits along the lower 17 miles of the Hatchie River in western Tennessee. Unlike most Mississippi River tributaries that have been straightened and levees constructed for flood control, the Hatchie River remains the longest continuous stretch of naturally meandering
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LBD 777-773.5 Hatchie Towhead 3 mile long towhead good only in low or medium water conditions, goes completely under around 25 CuG. During low water the Hatchie Towhead extends all the way up to the base of the 1st Chickasaw Bluff and can be possibly accessed via Tennessee 87,
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RBD 778-773 Sunrise Towhead - Island 34 Giant privately-owned island whose top end begins almost directly opposite the base of the First Chickasaw Bluff. At low water possible campsites emerge from the muddy sandy lowlands near RBD 777-778, these quickly disappear as the river rises. By medium water there will
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LBD 779-778 First Chickasaw Bluff As you paddle around Craighead Point RBD 779 (opposite the Old Channel of the Forked Deer) you will be rewarded with one of the most arresting views along the Lower Mississippi: the First Chickasaw Bluff. It seems like the entire river slams up against its