Dale cooked breakfast for us. He called it "Coon Ass Omelets" and boy were they good. He is a very good cook.
After breakfast we went on a tour of the area. He drove us thru the Dupont plant where he retired from and several other refineries and plants. Here are some pictures....
All these plants have pipelines to carry the product to the river area to load up barges.
This was a sugar cane plant....
This is the Woodchip company. They make chips out of all the cut lumber or trees.
We crossed over the Mississippi River through the Veterans Memorial Bridge. Nice bridge.
More of the sugar cane plant....
You can see all the plants from above the bridge.
Sugar cane fields for miles and miles.
A cemetery among the sugar cane fields.
This barge has a heavy load and he is going up river.... We walked up the levies to see this.
He drove us over Veterans memorial Bridge and on to River Road where all the Plantations are. This is a beautiful area. Here are some pictures.
This is the first tree on the row of trees.....It is a beautiful and huge tree.
The San Francisco Plantation....seen for up on the levies across the street.
The levies...
The Evergreen Plantation...
They also have a lot of the slave houses still standing.
All these plantations on River Road are about 3-4 miles apart and all along the River.
More of the slave homes....
Slave homes....
You see many pots like the one at this slave home...people here use them as planters but they were used to boil the sugar cane.
A beautiful church among the plantations.
Back on the bridge....
Next I will post pictures of a very old cemetery and Lake Ponchartrain....
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