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| *The mention of seafood sent me down to Abbeville. It was only one o'clock and I had plenty of time to do the La.82 Loop which I've stayed away from since right after the storm when I crashed being a dummy. The old draw bridge across the Vermillion is the gate to what I consider Coastal Louisiana in this area. |
| The old Perry Grocery seems to have survived. My old picture, when compared, could be interchangable. |
| Below is a Board Road. Board Roads have been the life line for on shore drilling in south La. They are the only way heavy machinery can get across our soft soil. If no minerals are found, then it's picked up. Laying a board road is not mechanized and the work probably falls into the category of "Not wanted by Americans". "It is hell", I've been told, in Spanish.* |
| I was moving toward Pecan Island and saw this cemetery. Evidently, cement floats. Placing graves above ground was meant to prevent them from being raised by ground water. The design could do little to prevent movement by water above the ground. This scene became common and more defined the further south I went. Note: Pecan Is.is not really an island, it is a high place in the marsh caused by a salt dome which has pushed the surface up. Louisiana has quite a few. Often oil and gas are found in quantity surrounding thise formations. |
| It is 100 miles between Abbeville and Cameron, my destination. |
| Almost everything that I had found pretty in the past was torn up, dead and brown. |
| Above are fishing piers. Some work has been done or the water has receeded a lot since my visit after storm. They had been unreachable. |
| Things seemed a lot flatter, or it could have been my imagination. |
| The road stretched out, what more can I say? |
| The orange sign read, "Constuction, Next 43 miles". Had I made a boo-boo? I don't turn around. Maybe out here, if I'd found it all pea gravel, I would have. |
| Turned out the construction was "shoulder" work. Now that is a good thing. |
| Road without traffic. |
| Road with traffic. |
| The old sign had been replaced, a promise of a return from the storm. |
| This bridge is still up, so far so good. |
| There's the Superior Canal. Surperior to what? |
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