Requiem for the Bayou

[JamesSavik]

CCR Live at Woodstock 1969 - Born on the Bayou

[Tomas]

Familiar images all. Especially that first one, but there are many places like that on the bayous. Sometimes I wish I were back down there and other times I'm glad that I'm not.

 

Thanks James, for those.

[Mark Arbour]

Looks like there'd be a lot of snakes there. I hate snakes.

[Jack Frost]

Looks like there'd be a lot of snakes there. I hate snakes.

Cottonmouths.

 

[Clovis]

What wonderful photographs. I had no idea it was so beautiful . My heart is aching for everyone and every living thing there.

[Tomas]

Looks like there'd be a lot of snakes there. I hate snakes.

And don't forget the "gators".

Old "Allie" would be heart broken.

[Hamen Cheese]

Somehow the wrong snakes came to mind...

 

The place looks so peaceful.

[Mark Arbour]

The gators don't bother me as much. They at least have legs.

[phana14]

And don't forget the "gators".

Old "Allie" would be heart broken.

 

 

Tomas,

My teenage years were spent on the St. Johns River in NE Fl. There were, at various times, anywhere from 20 to 35 boys grouped together way out of the nearest city.

During those years we learned swimming, water sking, boating, fishing and hunting. But of it all (by far) our favorite passtimes were paddling up and down the river's edge beneath the very low overhanging cypress branches, hoping to be the first that day to have a moccasin fall down in the boat. Of course the "game" would then change to get the damn thing OUT of the boat asap! The OTHER passtime, day or night, was skinny dipping.

We had a large dock w/a boathouse. To make the area "safe", we would swim up under the dock and splash water on the snakes to get them to clear out so we could swim "safely".

Straight out from us, in the middle of the river, there was a channel marker about 15 feet tall. If we saw a tug pushing one or more barges coming either way toward us our goal was to swim out to and climb up top and wave at the crew of the tug as it would pass by ten to twenty feet away. And I might add that we saw a lot more smiles than frowns!

Immortal kids! And would I love to do it again? In a heartbeat! Would I actually do that again? Are you insane!!?

Thanks, Tomas, for the trip down memory lane.

And oh yeah! We had TONS of wally gators around!

Edited June 29, 2010 by phana14

[glomph]

The Beatles also had a song, "Bayou a diamond ring, my friend, if it will make you feel all right."