This is Lake Leary east of the Caernarvon freshwater diversion siphon. The name of the area is peculiar. The plantation originally located at the site on the river is likely named after the town in Wales. I’ll have to do some digging to learn of this connection of Celtic Wales and South Louisiana.
Lake Leary is a good stretch of water. It behaves well to mix the fresh water influx from the river and the more salt waters blowing in from the East and the South. It is a curious mixing bowl where you can catch green trout on one cast and a speckled trout on the next.
Mr. Irvan Perez knew this area well and worked this area shrimping and crabbing. He never cared too much for crabbing and preferred working nets to hauling traps up for crabs. His decimas were of this area in general, but I cannot recall any in particular about Lake Leary.
This image reminds of the hope that the effort to mimic natural flooding and overbank flooding will stave off the more dire trends of marsh and overall land loss along the Louisiana coast. This small siphon is a minor success in the region and forces a mix of salinities and creates opportunities for rich abundance; metaphorically all of South East Louisiana is in need of a heavy rush of nutrients and lifeblood to restore and maintain what cannot be sustained on itself alone.
This is Lake Leary east of the Caernarvon freshwater diversion siphon. The name of the area is peculiar. The plantation originally located at the site on the river is likely named after the town in Wales. I’ll have to do some digging to learn of this connection of Celtic Wales and South Louisiana.
Lake Leary is a good stretch of water. It behaves well to mix the fresh water influx from the river and the more salt waters blowing in from the East and the South. It is a curious mixing bowl where you can catch green trout on one cast and a speckled trout on the next.
Mr. Irvan Perez knew this area well and worked this area shrimping and crabbing. He never cared too much for crabbing and preferred working nets to hauling traps up for crabs. His decimas were of this area in general, but I cannot recall any in particular about Lake Leary.
This image reminds of the hope that the effort to mimic natural flooding and overbank flooding will stave off the more dire trends of marsh and overall land loss along the Louisiana coast. This small siphon is a minor success in the region and forces a mix of salinities and creates opportunities for rich abundance; metaphorically all of South East Louisiana is in need of a heavy rush of nutrients and lifeblood to restore and maintain what cannot be sustained on itself alone.
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Fernando Cundin — June 8, 2009