Mardi Gras Pass Navigable?

Yep

I might just go Ostrica.

If you are talking about the mardi gras pass across from Fort Jackson, near Fort St. Phillip, piece of cake, ran it Friday and Saturday 29' deep at the cut in the rocks, 148' on the river side. No issue at all just make sure you know where center of the cut is, the rocks can be hard to see.

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That drop from the river through the rocks sis fun

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Yep, pretty interesting in a bass boat as well...

Boat is already at camp near Delacroix.

So you are running from Delacroix to the river at Fort Jackson? More than doable but may be easier places to enter the river where are you trying to get to?

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What is the best path from empire to grand isle?

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Exit the Empire Jetty and head west to you hit Grand Isle. If you don't know the inside I wouldn't recommend running it.

Nothing to it, you would ideally follow the Empire waterway from Empire to the Empire Jetties, however its not really marked anymore but still there. Assuming you have a decent GPS/chartplotter come through the locks at Empire at the river then exit through the locks on the marsh side, run to the rocks on your chartplotter, if you get out of the waterway there will be oyster poles to slalom through but it's pretty deep the whole way especially in summer with a summer tide being higher. I don't worry about hitting anything over there anymore I just run and avoid the oyster poles which can be a PIA.

That is where it gets confusing.... Long before Mardi Gras "cut" east of pointe a la Hache a cut in the river formed there was Mardi Gras pass across from fort Jackson several miles downriver of Mardi Gras "cut".

I can't speak of the history of the new cut east of pointe a la Hache as I don't go there that often but the other Mardi Gras pass has existed since I ca remember easily 35 years. That's why i first asked which one the OP was talking about.

You would do just as well trailering your boat all the way to Grand Isle if that's what you have in mind. I have to imagine running from Delacroix to Grand Isle would be at least a 2.5hr boat ride on a good day.