Thanks for dropping by. I haven't blogged in a while, all's well, just gettin' lazy.
If you feel like listening to a little local music in the background while you read this, just click on the highlighted text above. This is Cajun country.
We found this little gem of a state park in Grand Isle Louisiana.
It's on the gulf, it's quiet and more than half the sites here are unoccupied, even during march break. A nice change from Galveston, which was a bit of a zoo last week.
This is our spot, the beach is just on the other side of the dunes behind the Unit.
This is the beach, a stark contrast to Galveston, and the weather has been fantastic. We've even had to swat a few mosquitoes at dusk. Not complaining!
We guessed either rice paddy's or crawfish farms. It turns out they are both. These ingenious good ol' boys have combined the two. The rows of "dots" you see are crawfish traps placed in between the rows of rice. And what goes better with crawfish than rice?
Speaking of crawfish and good ol' boys, we stopped at a crawfish shack to see if we could get a few pounds "to go". We could barely make out what the owner was saying. It turns out (after we got a translation from another customer) that he only boiled crawfish to order and it would be about half an hour. It's a strange feeling when you know he's speaking English but you have a clue what he's saying. We continued on our journey.
Unfortunately we found there are no such shacks on Grand Isle but they do have a few of these, which makes up for it.
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