Launch Cost: Free
Destination: Mills Ditch-Pascagoula River Loop (blocked), and explore Black Creek, Pascagoula WMA as a back up plan.
Paddle Distance: About 35 miles (round trip)
Paddle time: 11 Hrs
Weather: Sunny, winds calm to 5 mph. Air temp 75-85 degrees. Current ranged from less than 0.5 mph in Mill's Ditch to 2.5 mph in Black Creek.
GPS Track: To view or download the GPS track of this trip, Click Here.
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| Header image is a photo of a harmless water snake wrapped on a limb. |
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| Sunrise as viewed from the Pascagoula River shortly after launch. |
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| One of Pascagoula River's many sand bars. |
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| Mayflies were spreading their wings to live for the day. (Mayflies only live for one day.) |
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| Unfortunate Mayfly - the one day it gets to live - it meets a spider. |
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| I saw a lot of water snakes today. |
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| I saw a lot of water snakes today. |
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| This water snake had a belly full of something. |
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| Today is the first time I ever saw a Gulf Coast Spiny Softshell Turtle and got a photo of it. |
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| A hunting camp on the Pascagoula River and Black Creek. |
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| One camp, Billy Joe's Retirement Home, appears to have a feminine touch. |
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| I had hoped to find more swamp areas to explore and only found one small area. |
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| Black Creek had a lot of current and was running 2-3 mph. It was a rather boring paddle with mostly high mud banks and little in way of wildlife tracks. |
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| I had planned to paddle up Mills Ditch to the Pascagoula River but Mills Ditch had a Log Jam that was 100 yards long and up to 10 feet high and I had already portaged logs twice and didn't feel like finding a way around this one. |
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| Sunset at the Roy O Cumbest boat ramp. |
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