We made it

Today we rode the last 25 miles to the Southernmost Point in Louisiana and now we are heading home wherever that may be. The whole trip has been 2800 miles and 2200 were down the Mississippi River.  The river is 2552 miles from it's source at Lake Itasca to the end so we didn't follow every bend but we sure followed a lot of it. 

The last three miles of the road were surrounded by water on both sides. People were fishing for redfish and flounder and possibly other things as well. Shrimp season opened last week so people were also trying to net shrimp. They call the area marsh because there are trees growing out in the water. Mostly cypress. There were lots of herons, egrets and other birds that my sisters could probably identify and would have liked to see. We looked at a map of the area and it is almost all water with a little land between the levees. 

We rode part way back and are staying at The Woodlands, a bed and breakfast that was featured on the Southern Comfort bottles for many years. And yes, we did try their special SoCo punch. We had dinner here with people that are from the area and some that come here often to fish. They shared lots of Katrina stories with us and they also wanted to hear our bike riding stories. They told us there are alligators in the ponds here and that you can see their eyes glowing if you shine a flashlight into the water. We tried it and sure enough we saw two glowing orange eyes. Then they started getting closer and soon we could see the whole alligator and it kept coming towards us. We turned off the flashlight and went back to our room. We had seen enough!!!