Another mediocre video has just been uploaded to YouTube!
Sunday, 27 January 2019
Thursday, 24 January 2019
Historic Galveston
It seems there's a historic district in Galveston, so we're heading into town to check it out!
Went for a stroll through the historic district of Galveston, TX on Thursday.
Some absolutely gorgeous churches and homes! They were huge!
And some incredible 'tree sculptures'! A lot of palms were destroyed after Hurricane Ike in 2008 so to help beautify the city, sculptors were asked to turn these dead trees into art. And they came up with incredible creations! I only photographed a couple of these tree sculptures - a dog and a pelican. But there are several more! We need to go back and find the rest!
Went for a stroll through the historic district of Galveston, TX on Thursday.
Some absolutely gorgeous churches and homes! They were huge!
And some incredible 'tree sculptures'! A lot of palms were destroyed after Hurricane Ike in 2008 so to help beautify the city, sculptors were asked to turn these dead trees into art. And they came up with incredible creations! I only photographed a couple of these tree sculptures - a dog and a pelican. But there are several more! We need to go back and find the rest!
Monday, 21 January 2019
Jean Lafitte, the pirate of Galveston Island
The first European settler on Galveston Island was actually a notorious pirate named Jean Lafitte!
Jean and his brother Pierre terrorized the Gulf of Mexico during the early 1800s. By 1817, Lafitte developed a pirate colony around his home in Galveston and called it Campeche. At its peak, Campeche had 2,000 inhabitants and 120 structures. Lafitte's home doubled as a headquarters for the colony's piracy business. It was painted bright red, and for obvious reasons became known as Maison Rouge. In 1821 the United States sent a ship to Galveston to forcibly remove Lafitte from the Gulf. Lafitte agreed to leave without a fight. After he left Galveston, his men set fire to all the buildings and destroyed the village.
Several years later a second dwelling was built on the foundation of Maison Rouge. That dwelling no longer exists either but the crumbling foundation still remains.
Jean and his brother Pierre terrorized the Gulf of Mexico during the early 1800s. By 1817, Lafitte developed a pirate colony around his home in Galveston and called it Campeche. At its peak, Campeche had 2,000 inhabitants and 120 structures. Lafitte's home doubled as a headquarters for the colony's piracy business. It was painted bright red, and for obvious reasons became known as Maison Rouge. In 1821 the United States sent a ship to Galveston to forcibly remove Lafitte from the Gulf. Lafitte agreed to leave without a fight. After he left Galveston, his men set fire to all the buildings and destroyed the village.
Several years later a second dwelling was built on the foundation of Maison Rouge. That dwelling no longer exists either but the crumbling foundation still remains.
Sunday, 20 January 2019
Day at the Beach
We're heading down to the beach today! Not a real good day for swimming day, but a great day for photography!
Saturday, 19 January 2019
MCTS Season 2 Episode 5
Hey guys, episode five of Maritimers Chasing The Sun has just been uploaded to YouTube. But I need to warn you, this episode is especially boring. This was the week following New Years Day and we were pretty lazy and did very little! We did get out on the last day and drove around Abita Springs and Covington...
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Walk on the beach
It's only about a 10 minute walk from our camper to the beach! Today isn't necessarily a 'beach day', not sunny but it is nice and mild, so we wanted to check it out! So off we go for a long walk. We spent a couple of hours down there!
The texture of the sand is quite different than other beach sand we've seen in the past. It's not the finely ground white quartz sand we've seen over on the eastern side of the Gulf. It's darker, more like the sand on the Atlantic coast. But much more hard packed! Great for walking...running...and driving!
Wednesday, 16 January 2019
We're now Texans!
After leaving New Iberia, LA around noon yesterday, we arrived here in Galveston, Texas late last night. We are really looking forward to this...we've never been to Texas before!
Today being our first day, we didn't do much. I went for a run on the beach first thing this morning, and it was so enjoyable! Afterwards, we drove around Galveston to explore the area. Picked up some much needed groceries, then back to the trailer.
We really like it here, well, so far, after just one day we really like it.
Today being our first day, we didn't do much. I went for a run on the beach first thing this morning, and it was so enjoyable! Afterwards, we drove around Galveston to explore the area. Picked up some much needed groceries, then back to the trailer.
We really like it here, well, so far, after just one day we really like it.
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Tabasco Factory
Today we did a tour of the Tabasco factory on Avery Island. That was really interesting! This is Tabasco's only factory, and all Tabasco sauce found across the world is produced right here! The tour included the following stops: the greenhouse where the pepper plants are started; the warehouse where the blending of the pepper mash happens; the building where the mash ages; and also a stop in the bottling plant. Very informative and very cool! Highly recommended it!
Monday, 14 January 2019
Acadian Village of Lafayette Louisiana
We had two attractions to visit just outside Lafayette Louisiana, so today we packed up and hauled the trailer from New Orleans to the KOC campground in New Iberia.
First up was the Acadian Village. Sheila and I visited it this afternoon after getting set up at the campground. We found this incredibly fascinating because this was where the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Acadians resettled after England launched the Great Expulsion of the 1700s in Atlantic Canada! They didn't resettle here immediately but rather, several decades after leaving New Brunswick. It was a challenging and diverse route from New Brunswick to Louisiana for these French colonists. Initially the British shipped them back to France in hastily built boats. But they were practically shunned by their fellow countrymen. Eventually coming back to North America to colonize the Spanish controlled Louisiana.
It was interesting to see the differences in the architecture and construction techniques between the New Brunswick Acadian Village and the Louisiana Acadian Village.
First up was the Acadian Village. Sheila and I visited it this afternoon after getting set up at the campground. We found this incredibly fascinating because this was where the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Acadians resettled after England launched the Great Expulsion of the 1700s in Atlantic Canada! They didn't resettle here immediately but rather, several decades after leaving New Brunswick. It was a challenging and diverse route from New Brunswick to Louisiana for these French colonists. Initially the British shipped them back to France in hastily built boats. But they were practically shunned by their fellow countrymen. Eventually coming back to North America to colonize the Spanish controlled Louisiana.
It was interesting to see the differences in the architecture and construction techniques between the New Brunswick Acadian Village and the Louisiana Acadian Village.
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