Once again we find ourselves parked on the edge of the Houma Civic Center Parking Lot. Unfortunately they have decided to raise their daily rate from $13 to $20! Although the staff is very quick to point that they are NOT running a RV Park, they obviously have no problems charging the going rate even though they do not provide things like: restrooms, showers, day room, laundry, open office every day, etc. But since the nearest true RV park is about 15 miles away, we have little choice.
We returned once again to Houma to check on how Rebecca and Raymond’s application for a mortgage is going. So far, so good. And for one more medical appointment (there seems to be no end to these). One day while parked in the Civic Center parking lot we noticed two pick-up trucks with portable tables set up and coolers under the tables. Every now and then other vehicles would pull up and we would witness some sort of cash transaction? We assumed that these guys were selling shrimp, so Corrie wandered over to check it out. They weren’t selling anything, they were paying a bounty on Nutria tails!
Nutria is a South American rodent that somehow escaped into the Louisiana marshes in the 1930s. Since then the population has exploded and they are destroying the marsh vegetation. Once the vegetation is gone, the soil erodes into the marsh and the marsh becomes a lake; or worse, a salt water bay. So the Nutria is now a major factor in the disappearance of the Louisiana coast. Since Nutria only eat vegetation, some are trying to convince Louisianans to hunt them for food. Dan has tried it, and like many things it tastes like chicken; but it hasn’t caught on with the locals yet.
http://www.nutria.com/site.php
Since nothing is going on in Houma, we have decided to leave tomorrow, 27MAR, for Livingston, TX, to check out the world headquarters of a RV club we belong to, ESCAPEES.
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