Cypress and Des Arc Bayou

[Robt]

Does anyone here canoe these? I've tracked Bayou Des Arc almost to Searcy by car, at all the road crossings I could find, and it looks navigable with the exceptions of some barriers made by cutting trees to fall across it in places.

The Cypress Bayou branch looks good from Highway 13 and hwy. 38.

It's obvious that some of the hunting lease owners don't want us there where it crosses their properties.

As a youngster I grew up on Culotches Bay, which I understand they've managed to get posted private.

I'm not looking for a war, I just want to canoe secluded waters. Does navigable include drag-overs and fallen trees?

[Eric Esche]

I've motor boated on parts of Bayou Des Arc with my father-in-law day fishing in years past, but never canoed or camped there. Very pretty area. Used to have great fishing when I went there with JM. Good idea to use some bug repellant or go after freezing temps. Been some big floods since then which has moved a lot of trees around, but haven't heard of any thing impassible. What I do remember is that there sure are a lot of snakes. Be real careful where you get out of your canoe.

If you want me to ask JM where exactly or his recommendations, shoot me a PM.

Eric

[Roger]

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[Robt]

Thanks for the links Roger, and the gentle reminder.

Those cables are strings of seismic "phones" and operate off millivolts so being obstructive is the only threat.

The black line with the "loops" is interesting, and is probably picking up frequencies outside the sound spectrum. Sounds like they're splicing into some pairs the piezos ain't using.

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[Roger]

Paddled it a couple of years ago. Nothing except for one log back then.

Familiar with the survey things as they've been doing seismic around here where we live. Just wanted you to know it had been paddled. We put in near Romance and took out at the lake after a paddle across a section of it.

[Robt]

Thanks. I think I'll start on Cypress Bayou at Hwy.38 and try taking out at Hwy.13 for a start. A closer look at googleMaps shows a lot of braiding between Hwy.13 and Hwy.11 (or White River). I don't have a GPS yet...

Is that lake private or posted? You're talking about the one by Des Arc "Mountain"?

Another spot I've been wanting to try is the lower Cache River South of Hwy.70, where the Ivory Billed Woodpecker is professed to live. I've seen the large cockaided woodpecker (supposedly extinct everywhere else) on our property in Scott County. He was doing tap, tap, tap more like thud, thud, thud!

The reassurances about the seismic cables was for general audience. Some seemed pretty concerned.

Those receivers pick up sound and other vibrations pretty efficiently. Going past'em and especially moving them introduces a lot of noise into the signals so we're as big a nuisance to them as they are to us...

I was a Senior Seismic Observer doing high resolution work offshore.