This weekend I went to Ship Island in Mississippi. We left New Orleans on the back roads via Chef Menteur Highway and stopped at a Vietnamese bakery in New Orleans East to get some wonderful pasteries. We had a French woman with us and she told us about how no one in New Orleans can make proper French baguettes because it is too humid, but that this bakery knows how to make them. She was ecstatic about getting to buy some. After that we went out the Rigolets which was a really neat experience. There was a big flock of white herons flying right next to our bus across the creek at just about the same speed as us. It was quite majestic.
Once we finally made it onto the ferry, I saw more jellyfish than I've ever seen before in the sound! There were tons! For at least a mile (and I'd guess it was more like 2 or 3), everywhere you looked out at the water all you could see were millions of jellyfish! It was something straight out of Avatar. As soon as we approached the island and the water turned a brilliant crystal clear turquoise color. It's as if you're in the Caribbean! It was absolutely spectacular, and since I don't have much experience with tropical beaches I was totally amazed! On a bit of a sadder note, we found some tar balls on the beach. Really not too many of them, but a few. I was equal parts excited and upset to find them. On one hand it's sad that I had to find them at all, but on the other, it was nice to have concrete physical evidence in my hands to remind me of the spill because as the saying goes, out of sight out of mind. I took a little video of the waves lapping at the sand that I'm sure I will watch on repeat in the dead of winter.
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