When in this area, we always take a pass around to our old haunts. This is the dock that Ray and his brother Stew, built back in 1983. We lived aboard our 32' sailboat for seven years in that very spot. We have such fond memories of this place. BTW, the green algae is an anomaly. The water is super warm. Lake Ponchartrain even has algae right now. We have never see that before.
This is also where I started sewing canvas. We ordered a dodger, enclosure, etc. from a great canvas shop in Houston. They were doing other boats in our marina and were driving in every two weeks. Well, we were the last boat they worked on...they didn't finish. They just decided they were tired of the drive. Well, what's a girl to do?...finish the job of course. Then people saw the work I did and started ordering work done. Believe it or not I had an industrial machine on that dock in a waterproof box that Ray built. That machine was so good that it was our main machine in our shop in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We had three other machines, but we all preferred that old one.
We had our shop for seven years in Vallarta before shutting it down to move to San Antonio, TX to care for our sick and aging parents. They have passed on now. We lived there for five years and still consider it our home base.
As you know, we ate our way through Louisiana. Well for our last meal we decided to go old school and buy our cooked seafood at a seafood shop. Yes, we have seafood shops like other cities have bakeries. I got hard shell crabs and Ray got boiled shrimp. He loves crab, but refuses to peel them. It is tedious, but a personally think it's worth it. I requested females because I love the roe. I was not disappointed. They were packed. Ray really enjoyed his shrimp too. This was a fitting ending to our stay in our old stomping grounds. I can still taste those crabs!!
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