Louisiana - Day 7
Today was a productive day. I started out in Peveto Woods in western Cameron Parish looking for birds. The birding was pretty good (14 species of warblers including my first Bay-breasted and Blackburnian Warblers of the trip), but the mosquitoes and deer flies were intolerable. My arms, pants, and shirt were spotted with blood from swatting the engorged critters. I eventually had to break out the deet, it burns my skin, melts plastic, and is generally miserable stuff, but it kept the mosquitoes in check. It doesn’t seem to do anything for the deer flies however. I then hopped the ferry to the east side of the parish and spent quite a bit of time photographing near Oak Grove.
Tomorrow is my last full day of photographing in Cameron. I think I’ll concentrate on photographing the ocean. Wednesday morning I’ll probably take a long drive through marshes, rice fields, and swamps on my way to Baton Rouge where I’ll visit with a few friends and prepare for the trip home.
By the way internet access was down again last night, so I'm posting yesterday's post today.
Live Oak, Oak Grove, LA 2006
Garden Hoses and Christmas Lights, Oak Grove, LA 2006
Old Vaults, Rutheford Cemetery, Rutheford, LA 2006
Car and Building, Oak Grove, LA 2006
South Cameron High School, Cameron Parish, LA 2006
Mary, Creole, LA 2006
Tomorrow is my last full day of photographing in Cameron. I think I’ll concentrate on photographing the ocean. Wednesday morning I’ll probably take a long drive through marshes, rice fields, and swamps on my way to Baton Rouge where I’ll visit with a few friends and prepare for the trip home.
By the way internet access was down again last night, so I'm posting yesterday's post today.
Live Oak, Oak Grove, LA 2006
Garden Hoses and Christmas Lights, Oak Grove, LA 2006
Old Vaults, Rutheford Cemetery, Rutheford, LA 2006
Car and Building, Oak Grove, LA 2006
South Cameron High School, Cameron Parish, LA 2006
Mary, Creole, LA 2006
3 Comments:
I see the vaults, but where are the caskets? That's kind of creepy. Congrats on the new bird sightings. How many do you have now?
They placed the caskets back in new vaults and buried them. It is a little creepy.
You must have lost your mosquito endurance. You used to be able to stand in swarms of mosquitos down there for a long time when there were birds around.
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