November 27, 2018
Today we decided to cross a 24 mile continuous bridge. It is the bridge over Lake Pontchartrain. It used to be the longest in the world. But China has since built one a few miles longer.
On our way to the interstate, we saw these pyramids up on the earthen levee. Discovered that they are for Christmas Eve bonfires. The locals build them in between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. They light them and eat and hang around and visit around them on Christmas Eve. Some stories say that they are lighting the way for Papa Noel (aka Santa).
We also stopped to take a picture of the sugar cane fields.
Donald pulled into a farm and asked if he could pick a stalk for us to sample the pleasure of chewing some.
When we arrived at the bridge, we started going south to north first.
We got off the bridge and went to see to oldest living Live Oak tree known. It is on private property so we couldn’t go up to it.
It is called the Seven Sisters (read about it by clicking on the link). The property used to belong to a family that had seven daughters. The tree also has seven sets of branches from the center trunk.
We then took the bridge back to New Orleans.
We then visited Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. The visitor center was closed so we just started hiking on the boardwalk. It’s mostly swamp and we were on a wooden boardwalk the whole hike.
Saw this colorful little frog.
Apparently the deer use the boardwalk too.
We learned the difference between a swamp and a marsh.
A swamp is wet with lots of trees and shade. A marsh is wet with little to no trees and grasses.
We stayed until dark, then drove 1.5 hours back to the campground. The RV park had a game room so the kids played pool and air hockey while Suzie did a couple loads of laundry.