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https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=217859314001592865582.0004e3dc347d5a71fc9e0&msa=0&ll= 35.397796,-90.042486&spn=0.042679,0.090895 http://goo.gl/maps/xmW5D Main Channel vs. Back Channel Main Channel: 4.75 miles (1 hour at medium water) Back Channel: 4.91 miles ((1.
caruthersville-to-memphis
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: If you intend on camping on Dean Island, stay Main Channel where the best campsites are located. If you are
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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 low water. You can see
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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 dull over-farmed section of river you
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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 and no dependable firewood sources. Avoid camping on
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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. Gaze downstream over your vessel towards the towering
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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 are none. Angelo has
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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, which dead ends at the
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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 be a noticeable flow into its back
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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 face. This cliff-lined muddy bluff