We made it through the busy city without any trouble and in the afternoon we arrived at our planned stop at the Winnie RV park in Winnie, TX. I found the local post office and mailed off our tax info to our tax guy. We ate supper next door at the Waffle House and made plans for today. We reserved the site for two more days, and headed out in the Jeep to explore. We headed east to Port Arthur and then south to the gulf and crossed Sabine Lake over into Louisiana. It was an interesting drive. There are a lot of oil refineries in Port Arthur.
Here you can just see the up coming bridge in the distance.
Over the bridge and looking back at it.
There was a little barge traffic in the inland waterway.
This ship seemed to be pulled up into shallow water for some reason.
A new refinery was being built on the Louisiana side. It sure seems to take a lot of construction cranes to do the job.
We had a long drive along the shore in Louisiana. Most of it was undeveloped.
Most areas in Louisiana had canals on one or both sides of the road with a lot of pastures and rice fields.
Most of the buildings, including this church and school were built on stilts.
Some areas had sand beaches and some just a rocky shore.
A few places had some houses or weekend beach cottages along the shore. Driving into one of these areas we spotted an alligator along the road, but he was too quick to let us get a picture.
We left the shore and headed up to Sulphur, LA and after a mid afternoon lunch there, back to Winnie. Tomorrow we are going to try to drive the Jeep south down to the Bolivar Peninsula.
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