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

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What are some sights, sounds, smells, textures or temperatures that you can still remember? Floating on a patched-up tractor tire inner tube? Catching blue crabs on a trotline with a dip net?

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We'd just moved to Louisiana and the company that my father worked for had a camp on Grand Isle that was available since it was winter. I mostly remember catching crabs in a square pull up crab net that we tied chicken necks to. I enjoyed catching them, and the boil, and eating them too. We took our dog and he chased goats that were in the yard next door. The drive from Baton Rouge seemed to take forever, in our Ford LTD station wagon (with the fold down seats in the back). I was 13 years old. The next year I took a field trip with a school biology group to camp on Grand Terre (ferry ride from Grand Isle). We explored Fort Livingston which was sinking into the ocean and did some fishing. A friend of our teacher had caught a shark on his boat and gave it to us. We ate shark, fish, and shrimp around a campfire with Fort Livingston in the background - cool trip. Our teacher drove us there in a VW pop top camper, and he had a hot girlfriend who didn't wear a bra or much else. VERY distracting for a 14 year old boy. Our teacher told filthy jokes that would get him fired quickly these days. I loved those trips which went all over the state collecting wildlife and to Big Bend as well. This was 1972, not sure what is left of Fort Livingston now.