Sunday, March 11, 2012

Palmetto Island State Park, Abbeville Louisiana

PALMETTO ISLAND STATE PARK came as a great discovery and a wonderful surprise.

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The Park is brand new, with roads wide and navigable.

The sites are easy, well spaced and even have an extra area for setting up a screen shelter.

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The very nice rental cabins are set upon pilings, with screened porches reaching out over the water.

If not for Beauregard, we’d rent one in a heartbeat and go all “ Heart of Darkness”.

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This ecosystem is not for every one. The location is well off the beaten track, and let’s not forget, swamps are well, swampy. So bugs are a big issue.

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But if you enjoy chirping birding, croaking frogs, alligators, kayaking, biking and adventure. This might be a good place for you.

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We will definitely be spending two weeks here in a winter “R” month (during oyster season)

Forget about summer, I wouldn’t want to be down this low during hurricane season.

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1 comment:

Erin said...

Looks like a place to get lost and be one with nature.