More Water than Land

Morgan City is in the northwestern part of the Mississippi Delta. There is so much water here it gets confusing. This is a panoramic view from the top of the levee across from our campground. To the left is Flat Lake and Pique Bayou. To the right is Lake Palourde, which appears to be slightly lower than the bayou. I think the levee is to keep Pique Bayou from flooding Lake Palourde.

Here’s another structure built to control water flow, but I really don’t know which side is being protected.

Today we drove 68 miles south, southeast to get to the “coast” at Cocodrie. As you can see from the map, the ratio of water to land just gets greater and greater.

There wasn’t really a coast, just waterways winding through marshes.

There was a nice restaurant, the CoCo Marina, where they let us sit in a corner with Matey. Matey was supposed to be outside on the deck, but since no one else was eating in this back room they let him be in with us.

Of course we had seafood. I had Mahi Mahi tacos and Bud had an oyster Po’ Boy. Very good.

Dry land is such a premium down here that this old cemetery was located on an Indian mound. Even so, the crypts are above ground.

Even much further inland long stretches of US route 90 are causeways…

through the swamp.

It was a pretty and interesting drive. This is my attempt to capture an egret rookery as we drove past at 70 mph.

There were thousands of boats, from fishing and shrimp boats on the smaller bayous,

to barges and bigger transport ships on the larger bayous. It was an enjoyable day of touring, but we definitely saw more water than land.