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I'm in south-central Louisiana right now, and I've been taking tons of pictures of interesting/funny things I've seen here. These are the people-related pictures. I'm going to make another thread tomorrow for the more nature-related pictures (there is some good stuff).

I might be posting some more pictures here tomrrow, if I see anything else worth taking pictures of.

Here's just a funny picture in the local newspaper. Apparently, whoever loses the game has to be the baby's father or something like that.


I've heard Econo-Mart serves the best fried chicken in town.


Here is a sugarcane processing plant (roughly 50% of the land around here is used to grow sugarcane).


This is the Oak Lawn Manor, a plantation built in the 1830s.


This is the first-annual St. Martinville Okra Festival.




Funny sign.


Local elections are a really big deal around here, and most of the candidates put creepy pictures of themselves on their posters.


These following pictures were taken at a restaurant in Lafayette where every night, large numbers of Cajuns get really drunk and then go and dance to live Cajun music. They play the dancing on a local television channel. These were shot before it got too crowded, though... It was especially funny that night because Lousiana State University lost their football game to Kentucky, so everyone was very angry and more drunk than usual.





And this batch of photos is from the eighteenth-annual Gumbo Cook-Off.







And finally, here are a bunch of kids making some mud-and-beercan gumbo.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

I should have made the images larger...

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

No, the images are fine.
You sound like you're having fun.
What are you doing in Louisiana?
Looking forward to the nature related ones.

where's louisianna? isnt that texas? there should be hundreds of snakes and geckos if so

It's a state Mez Look it up on the map


Okra festival Remind me never to go to LA in october. Okra is the one veggie I will NOT eat. The boogers inside them are just YUCK!


Pics were a fine size


^_^

What is gumbo?

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Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Patty: I'm here for a family wedding (which was extremely loud due to the Okra Festival 40 feet away). I got here on Thursday and I'm leaving tomorrow, but that's still plenty of time to fit some fun stuff in, like catching bugs and herps.

James: You're wrong. Louisiana doesn't have any native geckos. There are tons of Mediterranean House Geckos though, which I got some pictures of. There are way better herps than geckos out here, but unfortunately I was only able to catch one snake (it was a good one, however, not some garter/ringneck/brown snake). Also, Louisiana is not in Texas; it's slightly east of it and has a better climate (more tropical).

Lindy: Gumbo is a type of thick soup eaten by everyone at all times in Louisiana. The most common kinds are chicken-and-sausage and seafood gumbo (which can contain any animal remotely aquatic), but you can find gumbo with anything that can be considered edible.

I'm going to start resizing all the nature-y photos I took and hopefully get them up tonight in a new thread.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Also, Babel: I hate Okra too, but the festival itself was amusing.

(For anyone wondering what this region of Louisiana is like, just watch that Adam Sandler movie "The Waterboy". It's not an exaggeration.)

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.