Snow Geese of Lake Arthur

November 20, 2007
Today is a good day to drive! We were on the interstate when we noticed that traffic was backed up and the exit an open roads called us. The radio announcer was giving a traffic report; I10 from Lafayette to Baton Rouge was closed due to a gas explosion. Good thing we got off! We traveled the smaller roads south and west. Pierre Part was right on the Bayou and we enjoyed breakfast there watching a small houseboat being put into the water. Louisiana doesn’t have the best small roads, but the traffic is not at a standstill either.

We were on US90 when all of a sudden traffic was backed up, a parking lot! Officers were redirecting traffic onto side roads and around an accident with a truck filled with freshly cut cane. The cane truck was sprawled across the median and several cars and a truck were in the ditch.

East of Lake Arthur on route 14 we saw them coming by the dozens, flocks circling to land by the hundreds-Snow Geese. As we got closer and small crop duster plane spooked them and they flew further away. We didn’t get a good picture of them, but had a good view and listen to them calling. At the City Hall in Lake Arthur we made some dinner and sat around the big live oak. We had about an hour before sunset so we drove some and made it to Lake Charles and the Waldorf. Planet of the Apes left us wondering about time. Is today some ones tomorrow or yesterday?

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