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The river opens up below Mayersville and Wilson Point Island into a virtual ocean of open water and hypnotic distances that seem to shrink even the biggest tow/barge packages into flea-sized morsels. Distances are difficult to calculate here. As you paddle downstream with the main channel it easy to
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After getting flushed out Opossum Chute and the narrows at Corregidor, the canoeist or kayaker washes out into a gentle bend to the South at Mayersville past another Bunge elevator, a public boat ramp (Tennis Court Ramp) and a small refinery (Magnolia Resources, Inc). At high water Wilson Point Bar
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A series of sandy islands have formed around the Cracraft Lower Dikes affording beautiful campsites, picnic sites, and endless exploration at all water levels. At low water you must stay main channel of course, but you can canoe or kayak into any of the many inlets that cut into the
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The river concentrates around the bottom end of Kentucky Bend and slams directly into the Arkansas shoreline opposite with such force that it tore up all the fields and almost busted the levee in 1997 and in 2011, and a series of blue holes were formed around the edge of
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After Rounding Kentucky Bend the river turns southward around Leota Bar and runs into the Cracraft Chute. This is one of the most stunningly beautiful sections of river anywhere along the Lower Mississippi River. It should be considered a wild and scenic river so pristine are its islands, sandbars, forests,
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After running mostly southward for ten miles below the Greenville Bridge, the river finally curves westward in an elegant swoop around the densely forested Kentucky Island (Kentucky Bend Bar on the maps). This is the best remote camping in the area. Kentucky Bend and Island area is very wild feeling
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After sliding through the narrows past Sunnyside and underneath the monumental wonders of the new Greenville Bridge the downstream will be flushed vigorously outwards into the center of the mile wide main channel not far below. You will paddle over eleven major transcontinental petroleum pipelines, attesting to the importance of
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Below Warfield Point the river opens southwestward up a mile wide into a vast moving pool that flows into and then south around Vaucluse Bend with Island 84 on the left. Be vigilant for tows that often come to a stop in this area for servicing, crew changes and refueling
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Greenville, Mississippi When you refill your water bottles in Greenville you will notice the tea-colored waters coming out of any city taps. Not cause for alarm, you are about to imbibe in the waters that gave birth to luminaries Shelby Foote and T-Model Ford. Ask locals and you might be