Grand Isle, Lousiana

[Doyle Dikes]

After completing my visit in Alabama, I decided to head to Grand Isle State Park located on the southernmost road in Lousiana.  Grand Isle has a storied history, today it is mostly vacation homes called "camps" built on pillars to allow the flooding to pass undernearth.  Not as I imagined; no tall cypress trees with hanging moss.  The frequent hurricanes keep it trimed pretty flat. The nearby Inter Coastal Waterway is the site of a lot of tug boat activity and they work all night.  It was not a quiet place, the constant reving up of diesal engines, the banging of cranes loading/unloading.  Sounded like a construction zone.  The locals are immune to the sounds, afterall its just the sound of money.