In Cajun Country, A Photo Essay
Thank you for reading this week’s In Cajun Country post. Hope you like the photos!
I’m writing a travelogue for GlobalOutdoors.com. They post a new installment every Monday. You can see the first one here…
North shore, Lake Pontchartrain
Our week started at Fontainebleu State Park, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. At one time, the property was a sugar cane plantation, with slaves providing the manpower. Now it’s a state park where those slave’s descendants can recreate. Maybe we are making progress as a race.
Sugar mill ruins.
A hummingbird moth works a thistle near the ruins.
Happy couple, giant live oak.
The surrounding communities have some interesting attractions, although many are still closed due to COVID. Travel during a pandemic has some drawbacks.
When we got there it was closed, saving us ten dollars.
Susan strikes a pose in front of the Catholic cathedral in Lafayette.
From there we went to Palmetto Island State Park, in the heart of Cajun country. We learned to eat crawfish, and learned about the Abbeville Omelette Festival, where they make a gigantic omelette by using more than 5000 eggs!
Crawfish, yum!
Wash the ‘dads down with cold Abita!
Mural in New Iberia, Bearing Gifts.
The state park had a large concrete alligator to welcome visitors.
It also had red irises!
The old train depot is now a gift shop.
A mural of the Omelette Festival!
After two nights there we headed to Texas, where we are currently. Big Thicket National Preserve is the coolest place I’d never heard of! We stayed two nights in Village Creek State Park, outside Beaumont. But we’re moving again!
There’s a place in the Big Thicket called Pitcher Plant Trail.
Snack time for the pitcher?
Pitcher plant blossoms.
Cypress slough along the Kirby Nature Trail, Big Thicket.
There were magnificent old trees.
Thank you for reading this week’s In Cajun Country post!
Life is great and I love life!
Every day is a blessing. Don’t waste it- Go fishing! or take a trip!
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Abita beer – “brewed with Natural Spring Water”. Brought on an instant flashback of, decades ago myself and two buddies packed into whoever’s car was running and going to the Colorado mountains from Oklahoma for backpacking and stopping in Clayton, New Mexico for several (not 3.2%) six packs of Olympia beer brewed (no longer, alas) in Tumwater, Washington – “It’s the Water”.
thanks for sharing!