Wednesday 18th December 2019
3C – 12C and fine
NOLA, the abbreviation for New Orleans Louisiana.
We drove out of town today to the bayou at Barataria. Bayou means an extremely slow-moving body of water. The bayou is connected to a complex series of man made canals that allow massive barges to transport goods. The bayou and canals provide abundant supplies of crawfish, shrimp and catfish to some 3500 restaurants/dining halls of New Orleans. It is also home to heron, spoonbills and the American alligator. It was too cold today to see any alligators so our tour guide produced a baby gator for us to take a closer look at.
Back in town we sampled some beignets – deep fried Choux pastry smothered in icing sugar. They come in serves of 3 per plate – after dislodging as much icing sugar as possible I managed to eat one. Lucky Carmel and Geoff helped me out with the other two.
Took a stroll along the waterfront (Mississippi River) beautiful day but very cold. The huge ships that constantly ply these waters is stunning.
Hellooooo there Susan
Love your pics and commentary!
You look warm and snug while we are in the midst of our heat waves ?
Enjoy, Christmas not long now xx ???
Hello Cheryl, glad you have enjoyed catching up with where we are traveling. Liam flies in today. Looking forward to all being together for Christmas. Love Susan