January 6, 2015 Pleasure Point to Palmetto Island, Louisiana

 

 

The almost full moon setting in sunrise at   Pleasure Point  on Toledo Bend Reservoir was breath taking.

 

Mist rising off the lake when the sun hit it by the fishing pier . First light on the point.

    

Frost on the acorns, oak  leaves and pine and cypress needles. When we entered Cajun country we past rice patties, downtown Eunice with the Rice theatre, where the First Savior Church meets and the Louisiana Rice Mill.

 

Then sugar cane fields. We got caught in traffic behind the sugar cane harvesters.Their huge vehicles were covered with mud and cane. Below that is a crawfish farms. Rice, cane, crawfish and seafood are the main industries in this area. You know you are in southern Louisiana when you wee Piggly Wiggly and Winn Dixie grocery stores and houses up on stilts for flooding.

We made it to Palmetto Island State Park.  Here is the bus in our camp spot. Electric and water hookups and large spots. We took a nice hike on the nature trail. 70 degrees and sunny. Very nice.

 

  Evangeline lake and the comfort stations with free washer and dryers, bathrooms and showers.

  

A twisted tree, one of three armadillos we saw, frosty oak leaf and greenery from Pleasure point this am, back lit ferns, a fungus/mushroom thing, pine cones and a heart shaped hole in an oak tree.