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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome swamp pics to cheer you up (Atchafalaya Basin - Louisiana - 2019)
Cypress Knees and Spider Webs
Four Bald Cypress on a Mirror Lake
Dawn in the Atchafalaya
Swamp Scene: Late Afternoon
Atchafalaya Sunset
MLAA
(17,327 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)livetohike
(22,163 posts)I was debating the handles Livetocanoe and Lovesswamps
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)livetohike
(22,163 posts)years and then in Houston for a couple years. Granted the swamps were a 5 minute drive away in S.C. and we were on the water many times during the week .
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)That I find fascinating and beautiful. Both sets of my grandparents were from southeastern Arkansas. Some of my earliest memories are of being covered from head to toe: bonnet, long-sleeves, pants, gloves, and spending dawn to dusk in fishing boats with my grands. I think all the clothes were to protect from both sun and bugs. Those photos really took me back.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Luciferous
(6,085 posts)handmade34
(22,757 posts)and good memories... I love trails and when I worked in Louisiana I wasn't going to not get out in the wild (even though I'm from the North and the swamps made me mighty nervous) I got myself a pair of white shrimper boots and headed out... the 1st spotted green snake that I saw scared the bejeebus out of me but I loved every minute
LuvNewcastle
(16,856 posts)Thanks for sharing.
rampartc
(5,435 posts)plenty of 'gators as well.
liberaltrucker
(9,130 posts)blm
(113,090 posts)proud patriot
(100,715 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,072 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)I see in the pic titled, "Atchafalaya Sunset," that there are birds. I thought at first they were bugs. Once, many years ago, my ex wife number one and I were down in Florida. I think we were driving from Orlando on the Bee Line to Cocoa Beach.
It was night and we heard this pop, pop, pop, pop on the windshield. At first I thought it was rain, but no........it was BUGS!
Ran out of wiper fluid before we got there and the windshield was STILL a mess.
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)My ancestors and family have their roots there. What an interesting state it is, too bad the fact that it's red ruins it.
Shrimp, crabs, jumbalaya, gumbo, vampires, jazz, Mardi Gras, and dancing in the streets, to name just a few things.
Even their fast food served at the mall's food court is po'boys and other good stuff. No McDonald's for them.
Those pictures are fantastic and truly capture the soul of LA. Creepy af, too.