re: What are some memories from your young vacations to Grand Isle and other Louisiana areas?

salt crust before dawn on the boat left in the slip overnight.
cool May mornings with dad dragging a trawl for bait or food if we caught enough
after lunch...beach with mom to scope crabs
Sundown...bridge fishing with pawpaw

if not shrimp season.
dawn in the surf- fishing
repeat above

Every summer weekend for a year or 2 till the camp got destroyed by a hurricane.

Also cast netted a bunch of shrimp off of Highway 1 on the way down to the island in the fall.

I miss the salt crust on the boat...the smells of salt air. haven't experienced that since katrina.