Road Trip to the coast

I really love seeing pictures from different parts of the country; so hope you may find this interesting. I travel this route about once a week with work.

You turn off the 4 lane highway and still are 70 miles from the coast. One way in and one way out. You leave behind all the sugar cane fields and head into what feels like a different country because while all can speak english many of the locals still use french among friends.

If you are in a heavy truck you need to watch what bridges you use because many are pontoon floating bridges that will not support heavy weight. Kind of neat to see them open the draw bridge because it floats out of the way rather than lifting out of the way.



While you will see some tractors as you pass cattle ranches you will mostly see boats. This is a big oil support or fishing area.







You can even see some air boats. I have seen one a oil company owns (not this picture) that is used as a ambulance. Powered by a race car motor.



As you get closer to the coast you notice the buildings get farther off the ground.



Once you get outside of the hurricane protection levee even mobile homes are raised way off the ground.



This close to the coast where trees do not grow it looks like one big grass field.



But once you get on the bridge that crosses the intercostal waterway you can see it is mostly water.



Still 10 miles from the coast but you can see the town as it takes shape in the distance.









You pass a town of a few hundred people since most of the workers drive in but do not live here. This is a big sea port for oil rigs in the gulf.



You have now reached the end of the road and you are on a barrier island in the gulf. This is a town of about 1500 that swells to over 25,000 people in the summer time.

Neat pictures, hope to visit that area some time! Traveled through Louisiana once and never will forget the causeway NW of New Orleans. Spent 2 weeks in California last January and enjoyed that.

Lived in New Iberia twice for 2 years each contract. Worked at the port for ARCO in the 80's and BP in the 90's. All equipment was shipped to Alaskas N. slope via the inland waterway and though the Panama Canal.

Those are beautiful pictures. I'd be interested to see the drawbridge that floats away. I've seen ones that raise and I remember one that spins on a pivot in the Songo RIver in Maine where I grew up.
Zach

nice photo aray. Thanx

I also lived and worked in New Iberia but I worked at the Morton salt mine and at the Cargil salt mine.Being from SE AZ my wife loved the area (and the food) and would like to live there. All those pivot bridges and ferries across the Intercoastal are really cool. Beautiful country, and old tractors all over the place.

All the pictures and not one of a workboat or crewboat tied up at Pt. Fouchon. Not even a picture of a heliport.

Nice pics. I like it down on the Gulf coast.

when i was still runnin crew boats we tied up in Houma...still miss draggin them trash cans fulla cash home after 3 months offshore

It is there just a wide angle picture. Look at the second to last picture and you can see a jack up rig on the right and several supply boats at the dock in the center of the picture.

Nice job on the pictures. Thanks for posting them.