Today, the opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway to capacity was completed to relieve the pressure off the Mississippi as she rose to flood stages all along her levees this past week. As of this writing, she is breaching levees and flooding farmland in the northeast portions of Louisiana. This spillway is about 65 miles northeast of Bayou Dularge.

Fiesta de Mama de Cinco – Mexican food on the bayou?

There’s just not a whole lot I can say about picking up trash. It’s dirty work. However, there’s a heck of a lot I can say about litter and those who can’t get it through their thick heads to take their trash home with them rather than throw it into the bayou.

Come on down the bayou to the boat blessing, cher!

The Sunday after the Bayou Lafourche Paddle Trip found me on Bayou Petite Caillou, two bayous east of my own Bayou Dularge, for the annual Folk Art Festival at the Chauvin Sculpture Garden. The eccentric sculpture of Kenny Hill greets the guests at the entrance gate. There is an interesting story surrounding this mysterious man…