Posted by John in La on August 31, 2013 at 17:07:26 from (96.33.136.54):
Had a new hire with me all week so I was able to ride and mess with the cell phone. Took a few pictures of our area.
We still have farming in the area...
You can even find some cattle ranches...
We have a John Deere plant
Where they build new harvesters.
You might even see some old homes or buildings left over from our slavery days.
Sorry I could not get more pictures of the well built homes in the area many dateing back to early 1800's to late 1700's. They are built way off the road and have many large oak trees in front of them.
But what you will notice the farther and farther south you get is how the houses are built well off the ground.
Even mobile homes are raised well off the ground.
You will also notice that we bury all our dead above the ground in concrete tombs.
You will notice everyone may not own a tractor but most have boats.
Since fishing is a big way of life down here it is nothing to see a shrimp boat headed out to sea...
Or a yard full of blue crab traps....
Many own shrimp boats that cost well more than the house they live in.
Another big employer down here is offshore drilling so you will see lots of things related to that. Yards of drilling pipe.
And many boats that service the industry.
And even yards where they build the offshore rigs.
With all the boat traffic you will notice a lot of our bridges are draw bridges. A pain if you are driving around because they are constantly opening.
Some are even pontoon draw bridges that float on the water. Sorry no trucks over 25 tons. You must take the long way around. And if you drive a big truck you better know where they are at or you will be turning around and traveling many miles to get back to a road that goes a different way.
And did you notice how close to sea level we are. Yes all these water shots are sea level.
Yep still headed south. Land is getting real scarce now but you can see the town off in the distance on the right of the picture.
Very few people live this far south. Mostly oil related business; fishermen and seafood houses; and a few camps owned by people that live back in town. And roads mean nothing to some of these diehards. If you look real close you can see some of the camp roofs off in the distance. This is the closest road to said camps.
And did you notice all the trees (or lack there of) I think the great plains has more trees then this area. Hurricanes; salt water intrusion; and sinking land from the Mississippi river being leveed up are all to blame. I hope you enjoyed your visit to South Louisiana.
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