Grand Isle State Park

Grand Isle State Park is located on the Gulf of Mexico.  The trip down from New Orleans was an interesting trip with many new sights for us.  We traveled down U.S. 90 to State Hwy 1.  Hwy 1 followed along Bayou Lafourche nearly its full length.  This bayou is one of the main waterways for the shrimp boats with fishing village all along the route.  It is not shrimping season so many of the shrimp boats are tied up along the bayou in various states of maintenance or just "resting".

When we got to the park, we found a nice park, but a beach in shambles.

Behind Joyce is a huge tube of heavy black plastic filled with sand.  Off-shore, sand is being pumped onto barges to be brought to shore to continue filling the big tube.  Here it is, 2009 and the destroyed beaches are still being repaired after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  The sand filled tube is intended to present a barrier that will not be washed away in storms and will help reduce beach erosion.  Keep your fingers crossed...

And then winter reached all the way down here.