Kayaking Bayou St. John: New Orleans’ Paddle Inside the City
Most people who come to New Orleans think you have to drive out of town to get on the water. You don’t. There’s a bayou running right through the middle of the city, past front porches and live oaks and the edge of City Park, and on a good morning it’s some of the easiest,…
The Drowned Towns of Ruddock and Frenier: What the 1915 Storm Took
On a still morning out here, the water goes flat enough to hold the whole sky, and it is easy to forget you are floating over anything but mud and cypress roots. You are not. Somewhere under my kayak, and under yours if you come out with us, are the bones of two towns that…
The Manchac Swamp: History, Ecology, and the Real Story
Most people meet the Manchac Swamp through a car window, doing 70 on the I-55 bridge, and never learn they just crossed a graveyard. Two towns are under that water. So is the tail end of an international border, a clear-cut cypress forest, and one of the best wildlife corridors left in southeast Louisiana. This…