Captain Michael Dorie, who runs the 5 Rivers Delta Safaris can navigate the complex waterways of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. A canoe trip up the Mobile Delta which consists of approximately 20,323 acres of water just north of Mobile Bay, Alabama

The Mobile Delta is 30 miles long and 12 miles wide, formed by the confluence of the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. It covers more than 200,000 acres of swamps, river bottom lands and marshes. Congress named the Mobile Delta a National Natural Landmark in 1974.
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Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).
Forms part of: George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.