We headed out of Baytown after a relaxing start to the day. We really enjoyed the Baytown KOA which was peaceful and in a superb location perched on Galveston Bay and beside a Bayou. This area is a huge oil producing area and so the oil pumps and rigs surround you - a strange combination of the beauty of the Bay and Gulf area, and the contrasting industrial statues of the pumps and rigs.
It was a 4.5 hour trip to New Orleans, passing through some lovely countryside and the cities of Beaumont, Lake Charles, Lafayette and Baton Rouge. Into alligator territory now - noticed the signs up around the swamps and waterways!
Travelling into New Orleans, H10 is amazingly raised above the swamps and so you travel on about 30 miles of bridge! Must have been costly!!!
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| The Bayou beside the KOA |
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| The huge oil pumps look like a herd of steel giraffe statues on the shore of Galveston Bay On the other side of the Bayou next to the KOA lots of smaller pumps line the shore - those particular ones have been pumping oil for 100 years! |
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| A casualty of Ike, 2008 - the owner preferred the insurance! |
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| The oil rigs on the horizon of the Bay |
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| The Bay and KOA's fishing pier |
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| Our camp site |
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| Anyone for a swim? |
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| Lake Charles |
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| The raised H10 above the swamp |
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| The swamp - goes for miles and miles! |
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| H10 disappearing into the distance and still raised up above the never ending swamp |
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| Baton Rouge, an impressive looking city on the banks of the mighty Mississippi |
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| Our first glimpse of the mighty Mississippi |
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| Heading into New Orleans and still above the swamp - an amazing drive! |
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| The strange beauty of the swamp |
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