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Saturday, August 02, 2003
Updated our trails page so now it has a funky map; thanks to Carol Roberts at UT for inspiring me with her design.
We're planning our trip through the Atchafalaya Basin for October; the Sierra Club is sponsoring their second "Experience Atchafalaya Days", and we're doing a north-south trip, calling it "South by Southeast". I'm hoping for a two-weekend barrage of food, music and paddling.
What else? We've got a board of directors now, plus some kayaks to rent.
Since I last wrote, I've taken three or four groups out into the Basin. One, a father-daughter team, paddled everywhere. North Henderson Loop, Lake Henderson and Lake Martin. They loved it. Later I took a group of Boy Scouts down Bayou Courtableau and back up the Gremin Canal. That was a long day. The group kept expanding and contracting, accordion style, and I kept losing touch with the people in the back. They were a little young for Boy Scouts - more twelve and thirteen year olds. They get tired easily, I think. When I'm leading a group, I keep an ear out for the sound of paddles hitting the sides of the boat; that means they're losing steam.
Also took out a couple of groups of juvenile probationers. We got them to a duck blind, where they all said they were craving a cigarette. They were also pretty young.
A couple of guys from Missouri came down and I led them from Lake Fausse Pointe through Grand Avoille Cove (where we had to portage over the levee) to Oscar Island, where we spent the night, and then to Calumet landing. They had a really good time, even though we got eaten by every bug in Louisiana on Oscar Island. The island is a small, densely vegetated speck of land in the middle of Grand Lake just south of Myette Point. It's an okay campsite in the summer, probably great in the fall and winter.
James 1:00 PM [+]
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