Watching the Bayou
I like to sit on the back of the boat and watch the bayou during off-hours, especially in the evening when it's cooled off. Though the water is murky and a not a little polluted, the place is alive with wildlife. Great grey herons, snowy egrets, bald eagles, seagulls and tweet-tweet songbirds are everywhere, and fish constantly jump and slap themselves back on the surface. There are also turtles, watersnakes of some kind, and the occasional alligator. This bayou, which I think is called Bayou Bouef, is also busy with all kinds of boat traffic. Tugs push barges back and forth constantly, supply ships head out to the offshore drilling rigs, while shrimpers, speedboats, sportfishing boats, and sometimes houseboats cruise by. It's fun just sitting and watching the free entertainment.
I hear you are home, hope you had a fabulous time and have some great paintings to show.
Posted by: yvette | October 14, 2007 at 01:14 PM