Above is a typical scene to be found at Avery Island, New Iberia, Louisiana. It covers about 2200 acres and is surrounded on all sides by bayous (slow moving muddy rivers) and by swampland and salt marsh. It is mostly known for the Tabasco Sauce produced there, but it is also a bird sanctuary and has abundant wildlife and many alligators as a following video here shows. When I visited there several years ago, I did not see any alligators whatsoever.
Lots of Spanish moss on an over hanging oak tree branch. Note the wild iris as well.
The Louisiana Iris is the state wildflower and it comes in a wide variety of colors: blue, purple, yellow, white and pink. It grows wild primarily in marshland areas around coastal areas.
This photograph is a little blurred, but let's pretend that's because it is artistic ! I wanted to show the Louisiana wild iris with the egrets in the background. Unfortunately, I did not take very many photographs while I was there and I am limited as to what I can post here. Below is a video about the history of the egrets at Avery Island. Right now it is estimated that there are over 100,000 egrets there.
And if you scroll down, here is another video with views of the gardens at Avery Island. I hope you are interested in alligators, because there are plenty in this video below.
More of my photographs follow below:
Avery Island is a salt dome, and it is located about 140 miles west of New Orleans. It is about 3 miles inland from Vermillion Bay which opens into the Gulf of Mexico.
I hope you enjoyed your visit with me here as much as I enjoyed viewing these photographs from years gone by.
