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| Bayou Black Rd. is filling up. High ground is at a premium and the growing population and low home loan interest rates are causing sprawl. That's a real shame. There are a lot of driveways, so be cautious. |
| Houma |
| Arriving in Houma, I spied this beauty. |
| Let me explain why there are only a few pictures of Houma on this trip. Houma is a little Venice, there are draw bidges everywhere. This stops traffic dead. Then the bridges open and the large sludge of traffic moves forward to the un-timed lights. I wanted to ride around my former home and seek out some of the old landmarks. Nothing doing. I arrived during the lunch hour. I think everyone goes out to eat. The traffic reminded me of Westheimer in Houston, no, worse. I found Grand Caillou (Ki-You) Rd, La.57, the road to my old rural home. It was no where to be found until I returned. I poked along for 45 minutes finally clearing the traffic. Out of town there was one camp/home after another along the bayou until you see the land go away on the map. Bayou Sale is below. It is marked as B.S. on the map. |
| Below is La. 57 as it follows Bayou Sale (Sally) south. The road is pretty good. DOT has been patching in the corners and the turns are dangerously filled with gravel. Surprise to night riders. You kidding me, out here at night? No way! |
| Above picture is looking south toward Cocodrie across the water. Cocodrie is known for big time offshore fishing. Big money rules. Camps of the rich and famous dominate the closer you get. I should have taken some pictures, but that doesn't interest me. |
| Leaving Cocodrie I saw that the camps were going down in value the further north I traveled. I thought of just putting the camera away. After a while you just get camped out. Then things picked up. I got into some interesting civilizaion. I love coastal Louisiana. I guess from the 3 years I lived here as a very young child. The coastal region is so different. Seafood is not special, it is common. People don't stay inside. The environment is their world. The place is teaming and alive. If you live and/or work down here, bets are you are a fisherman of some variety or youwork in the oil industry. Both obviously outdoors. If you are not from down here, you are here to be outdoors. Or eat, then go outdoors and try to get home with your fat belly full of the best food in the world. |
| There's a fishing boat coming in from Lake Boudreaux. |
| Above is the person in other picture. |
| Two styles of offshore fishing> |
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| How you want 'em, cher? |
| South of Chauvin, the realities of life down here reside side by side. I wonder if this only high ground around was an Indian mound that has served that civilization. Indians still live down here. I believe they or some are the displaced Tunica Indians from north of Baton Rouge. There are also the Houma Indians. But they may be the same as in the "Houma Band" of the Tunica Indians. Betcha. |
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| I really like the old road houses and juke joints. Here, around Chauvin, I think, I found The Good Times Roll Club, obviously only serving COKE. |
| Taken from one of the many little one lane suspended turn-table bridges (very interesting, why didn't I shoot one?) The shrimpboats are tied up, ready for the season which the Feds are going to make miserable. |
| Chauvin (Sho-va) Bridge. At least you can see a little of it. I thought the rules of the road display interesting. You are not in California. Darwin rules here. |
| Retired shrimp boat taking a dip. |
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| My trips are not planned. They are not researched and I reap the results. Henry (copcop) sent me this link to what seems to be a very neat place. I stopped and looked at the non-discriptive, non-inviting, non-interesting sign. The building is large and forboding, but evidently it is public and the results of your tax dollars, my guess. It serves schools and other visitors. What I would have liked to have seen was the view form its observation tower. Here's the link, go and send me a report on your visit. I'll publish it.The link is HERE. It is just north of the 56/57 intersection if I remember correctly. All visiting info is on their site. |
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| The big draw bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway was raised to allow traffic to travel through. |
| Sitting and waiting for the boats to pass is common when trying to go across town in Houma. |
| Bayou Sale along La.57 |