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re: Retire to Holly Beach or Grand Isle
Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:25 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:25 pm to Jim Rockford
If you like heroin then Grand Isle is the place for you. If you like cow shite all over the beach, then Holly Beach, or just to the west of it Dung Beach (nickname given by all teens in the 70's)
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Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:28 pm to bhtigerfan
You can’t take a shite in grand isle for under $20
Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:29 pm to bhtigerfan
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Holly Beach has nothing.
Rita and Ike raped Holly Beach
Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:31 pm to Jim Rockford
Which one has blue water and white sand beaches?
Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:37 pm to ihometiger
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Which one has blue water and white sand beaches?
Grand Isle comes close to white sand, but that is it.
You will need to go East to get blue water.
On my last venture, I had to go to Navarre before getting to the blue water. Pensacola/Orange Beach was green so I guess that is why they call it the Emerald Coast.
This post was edited on 7/20/20 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:39 pm to The Boat
quote:Yep.
Rita and Ike raped Holly Beach
I think Holly Beach had a small grocery store before Rita. Nothing but camps have been built since. Closest grocery store now is in Johnsons Bayou (15 miles) or Hackberry (20 miles).
We own a lot on Constance Beach (8 miles west of Holly Beach). After Ike wiped out the grocery store in Johnsons Bayou (after it had been destroyed and rebuilt from Rita) we moved our RV to Grand Isle. Much prefer GI. Better fishing, more to do, and can actually get groceries or eat at a restaurant.
This post was edited on 7/20/20 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:48 pm to bhtigerfan
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Much prefer GI. Better fishing, more to do, and can actually get groceries or eat at a restaurant.
Grand Isle has 2 grocery stores now and a couple of restaurants. The Grand Isle supermarket is about as close as you can get to a Walmart, a grocery store, and a hardware store all in one. They may even have wood, otherwise it is a long drive to civilization in South Lafourche or Houma. And, if you change you Drivers License to become a resident of Grand Isle you can get a free pass time cross the Leeville Bridge.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 10:49 pm to ihometiger
quote:Neither.
Which one has blue water and white sand beaches?
When we bought our lot in Constance Beach in ‘07, the sand was beautiful. They had pumped sand in from offshore to rebuild the beach and it was almost white sand like FL or AL. But along came Hurricane Ike and washed all that shite away.
That being said, the water in Grand Isle is much better than in Holly Beach. If the surf isn’t rough, the water on the beach is usually green. It will never be like FL because of the Mississippi River. Grand Isle is known for the fishing, not the beaches.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 11:08 pm to Jim Rockford
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Not looking for glitter and glamor.
We know.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 11:11 pm to Jim Rockford
If that’s your only 2 choices Grand Isle and it’s not even close
But why are those your only 2 choices. There’s much better options along the Gulf Coast to live/retire
But why are those your only 2 choices. There’s much better options along the Gulf Coast to live/retire
Posted on 7/20/20 at 11:14 pm to Jim Rockford
If given a life sentence to either I would risk being shot trying to escape.
Why not offer Mogadishu as option 3?
Why not offer Mogadishu as option 3?
Posted on 7/20/20 at 11:15 pm to BZ504
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Retire at 30A instead
Yeah, I think he misspelled Rosemary Beach......
Posted on 7/20/20 at 11:22 pm to Tarps99
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The Grand Isle supermarket is about as close as you can get to a Walmart, a grocery store, and a hardware store all in one. They may even have wood, otherwise it is a long drive to civilization in South Lafourche or Houma. And, if you change you Drivers License to become a resident of Grand Isle you can get a free pass time cross the Leeville Bridge.
I can make it to Sand Dollar Marina from New Orleans in less than 2 hours.
There are several Rouses and a Wal Mart on the way down there as well as 2 very stocked Grocery stores and 2 very Stocked marinas on the island as well as several restaurants and bars.
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And, if you change you Drivers License to become a resident of Grand Isle you can get a free pass time cross the Leeville Bridge.
Wut? All you need is a Geaux Pass and you can go through for little to nothing
Something tells me you’ve haven’t been down there in a while.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 11:48 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Wut? All you need is a Geaux Pass and you can go through for little to nothing
Something tells me you’ve haven’t been down there in a while.
I was talking about how someone can establish residency on the island you can get a Geauxpass for free and not have to pay the toll. The toll is 3.75 one way. If you have to go back and forth from Grand Isle to South Lafourche or where ever a few times a day that will run someone broke.
The caveat on the free pass is residency, you just can’t have a camp on the island and you get a free Geauxpass.
By the way, I live on the way to the island. I was there a few weeks ago. So I know the island and the area all too well.
Posted on 7/20/20 at 11:56 pm to Tarps99
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I was talking about how someone can establish residency on the island you can get a Geauxpass for free and not have to pay the toll. The toll is 3.75 one way. If you have to go back and forth from Grand Isle to South Lafourche or where ever a few times a day that will run someone broke.
The caveat on the free pass is residency, you just can’t have a camp on the island and you get a free Geauxpass.
Gotcha. I have a Geaux Pass that’s connected to my CC, and go down there either to Fourchon or the Isle more than a dozen or so times a year
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I was there a few weeks ago. So I know the island and the area all too well.
I’ve been on the Isle 6 or 7 weekends since the shutdown, we may have ran into each other.
I would be leaving again Wednesday but they cancelled the Tarpon so this will be the first time in about 30 years we’re going not going to be there this weekend
Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:10 am to tgrbaitn08
Shelly's Sureway is a helluva swiss army knife grocery/hardware store..
Nice to know if you slept on Costco on the way outta town.
Nice to know if you slept on Costco on the way outta town.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:50 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 7/21/20 at 2:42 am to Jim Rockford
My Mom And Dad lived in Grand Isle for about twenty years. The year of Katrina they evacuated 9 times. They loved the Island.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 5:59 am to Jim Rockford
Laid back with smelly ugly water, tarballs and skanky old tattooed women? Hard pass.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 6:00 am to Jim Rockford
Grand Isle
Sign me up !
Sign me up !
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