A cloudy day as we headed off to Louisiana. We as usual took the back roads.
The border between southern Mississippi and Southern Louisiana is the Pearl River. It is kind of wide bayou. This is what the GPS showed it as. This part is called the Honey Island swamp, the second largest swampland in Louisiana, behind the Atchafalaya river basin. Part of a mural on the side of a blues bar in Slidell, LA-a crawfish playing the blues.
Fontainebleau state park is on the shores of Lake Ponchartrain. The other side of the lake is New Orleans, it is connected to this area by a 38 mile toll causeway. As soon as the bridge was complete in 1956 residential development of the Ozone belt –this area- so nicknamed because of the thick pine forests that improve the air began. Fontainebleau is part of the remains of the sugar cane plantation owned by Bernard De Marigny. All that is left is the ruins of the sugar mill above.
As soon as we took off on hike on the nature trail and alligator boardwalk it started to rain. A dead oak tree in the storm clouds. John on what is left of the boardwalk. Good thing it is too cold for alligators.
Lake Ponchartrain and John standing at the end of the fishing pier in the park.
Rain on the lake. Our campsite in the oaks.
Flowers that are blooming, sorrels, narcissus, lilies of the valley.
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