Mississippi delta

After visiting the nice town of New Orléans, I spent a couple of days in the Mississippi delta, a huge wet zone and totaly flat. VivaLaVida sometimes slept on the beach it-self and I could observe many birds…
 
 
1. A nice campsite, isn’t it?
 
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2. Half sun! 😉
 
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3. A seagull at sunset…
 
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4. Sunrise with sea mist…
 
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5. Halo in the mist…
 
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6. Work of the night probably…
 
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7. Another campsite…
 
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8. Royal terns resting.
 
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The next day, I moved a few tens of kilometers and arrived in Texas in an area where there are freshwater marshes behind the dunes, promise an interesting ornithological fauna.
 
As I walked there, I met me a retired volunteer. Exchanging a few words with, she said: “From 5, mosquitoes will attack you!”
Me: “Really? Even in the wind?”
Her: “Yes , pray for having wind…”.
I found a place to sleep on the beach and after photographing the sunset, I walked into VLV and have undertaken to postprocess some images. Around 9:30, when I turned on the light, stupor: it was almost impossible to see through the windows as there were so many mosquitoes above! Thousands at least. Then I realized that a good fifty were able to enter VLV, where I’m not sure yet . Perhaps through Dashboard ventilation since all other issues being closed… So I had a pretty mosquito hunt before cooking my diner and after because obviously they continued to enter. The next morning, there was again a good fifty but fortunately, as these little creatures have never loved me, , I had only one bite on a toe… : – D
So much for the story.
 
 
9. The campsite in question under a nearly full moon.
 
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10. A snowy plover.
 
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11. Two others…
 
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12. Readheads.
 
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13. A nice heron…
 
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14-16. A small series on the brown pelican, wonderful.
 
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17. A neighbor of my camp…
 
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Bye for now……
 
 

2 Commentsto Mississippi delta

  1. Monty says:

    Beautiful pictures as always Claude. It appears that you are having a wonderful time. By the way, where did you get the folding stairs for VLV?