Kayaking in the Bayou

On Saturday, Chance stayed with Scott and Syed and us girls went kayaking on the Bayou. We drove about a half hour form the house to the Jean Lafitte Preserve where we rented kayaks and headed out for the day. The rivers we are used to canoeing and kayaking in are much different than the areas we went today. The water in the Bayou is mostly covered with grass and reeds. In most spots there was only a small path that was cleared to go through. If we missed the path the reeds would scrape against the bottom of the kayak making it hard to paddle. We did not see a whole lot of wildlife but we did see four alligators. There was also very little cover leaving us out in the hot sun most of the time also a change from the other places we have gone. Even though we were planning to be out longer we were only out a little over two hours. We are all glad we did it but I think next time we are going to look for a place with a little more shade and maybe a little less cumbersome path. After we turned our kayaks back in we went down the road to a little restaurant where we had some lunch. While we were out kayaking Scott, Syed and Chance went to the World War II museum. They had a very good time looking at all the exhibits. The museum is one of the best in the country, when they were deciding where to build it New Orleans won the bid because the place where they built the amphibious assault vehicles for the war (the ones that helped win the invasion of Normandy) was in the Lake nearby. I don't have any pictures of the museum since I took the camera kayaking. Picture captions: 1. Rayna and Sherri - this isn't the best picture of me 2. This is me just leaving the dock 3. One of the alligators we saw right beside Becky's paddle 4. Becky - you can still see the alligator just under her paddle