Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, St. Martinville, Louisiana
Of what use is money in the hand of a fool, since he has no desire to get wisdom? ~ Proverbs 17:16
Many of the pictures today will look just like the ones from two days ago. That’s because we spent 3 ½ hours of our day back in the water. We took a different path, and we enjoyed ourselves immensely, but I’m certain most of the pictures won’t excite you.
but as you can see it’s choppy and it was pretty windy, so we passed. For today.
who stayed in place long enough for us to take a picture or two.
At one point, we got a few sprinkles of rain on us.
Except there was this one thing we discovered.
I tried to find out what this is. I really did. Our best guess is that it’s an old abandoned oil well from years ago. All I could come up with was that BCF Resources is shale experts. It looks like they purchased this from Texaco at sometime. Blaine said they take oil out of the shale for energy, but they certainly aren’t sucking shale up through those skinny pipelines, so I don’t understand it.
I made it back okay. Just took a little doing, and a lot of laughing. : )
And I have no picture to prove it, but we actually saw a pelican today! As it came flying towards us, we were running the gambit of what we thought it was – eagle, osprey, anhinga . . . . No! Pelican! That was sure a surprise!
Other than that, there wasn’t nearly as much wildlife today as the other day. We saw Great Blue Heron, snowy-white Egrets, I think one osprey, and one smaller egret. We’re not sure if it was a young one, or a different type, but it was definitely much smaller.
This one took some doing to get us both out. : )
All that green stuff is called duckweed. Apparently, it’s not an issue for the bayou even though it reproduces fairly quickly. It’s rich in nutrients and provides food and shelter for numerous insects and fish.
And when we turned around to look for a trail behind us, it had already closed back in!
Luckily it’s not too hard to paddle through.
Back home, it was tacos for dinner – – which was over by 3pm. 😊