I’ve been working in Louisiana for the last ten days and was anxious to get home. Up at 0500 I was in the elevator heading down to check out by 0545. Riding down with me was a fellow hauling a large cooler. Creating conversation I said…”looks like your heading out early also?” He replied…”have to get out early to beat the heat.”
Checking out the woman looked over at the group, including my elevator companion, and said they were headed out for alligators…”today is the first day of the alligator season.” Alligator season runs from the first Wednesday in September and runs for 30 days. During that time 30,000 to 35,000 are harvested.
She also added that a film crew from Swamp People had recently held auditions at the hotel for this seasons alligator hunters.
My companion in the elevator would not be one of them as he was too corporate looking, clean cut and average looking. Most of those profiled on Swamp People are more colorful in appearance and speech.
Heading west out of Houma and across the swamps, the mist and ground fog clinging to the trees and floating on the swamp, I thought what a primordial scene…not changed since dawn of time and neither have the alligators!
No comments:
Post a Comment