Mile 368.0 - Miles 368-366: LBD Bluff Bars

368 - 366 LBD Bluff Bars

(Note: We’re talking here about sandbars, not alcohol bars. Your thirst will soon be satiated at Natchez-Under-the-Hill Saloon, or other nearby establishments!) At medium and low water levels the adventurous paddler can pull into some highly unusual ledges of sand and mud and collapsing Loess Bluff left bank descending as you float down into Natchez. Upstream towboats tend to hug the bank here, but if you want to get a close-up glimpse of the unique Bluff biota, paddle as close as you’re comfortable and you will see fantastic landscapes revealed. Deep mysterious ravines lacerate the bulging bluffs and avalanches of mud. The towering canopy of sycamores, oaks, ashes, elms, beeches, sweetgums, hackberries, and cottonwoods creates an ethereal understory full of vines, brambles, and shorter trees and bushy growth full of mist on most mornings, and shady until mid-day when the sun climbs high enough above the Natchez Hills to be able to look in. As such this monstrous bluff line is best explored in the afternoon light when the sun is best able to penetrate the jungle.