This ones follows the road down to Cypremort Point. 
I've followed the road down to Cypremort Point many times since 1968, or so. Maybe earlier, who knows? Louisianians do not have easy access to the Gulf except in a few places and then those roads actually go to the bays. Such is the case with Burns Point and Cypremort Point.
       I discarded the old CP ride report done years ago. I had pretty much made up my mind that the area was not worth re-doing. After Rita, I expected CP to pretty much be flattened and a litter zone in the marsh.  Wrong.
        When I ride, which is rarely these days, I like to do a bit more than an "around the block" mundane putter. This time it was late, real late. I believe I didn't get away until 10:30, or so.
Where would I go? Texas was out, Mississippi and Oklahoma were, too, so I settled on Cypremort Point. What the heck. It had been a year since the hurricanes roared through and maybe I'd see something interesting or pretty. I really didn't deserve much after being so lazy about my exit time.
      And, indeed, I had all those old pictures I could use, making the ride more a ride than an article mission. Maybe they were worth re-presenting without all the horrible prose I had attached before. The last CP ride was  written in an attempt to make it sensible. That was a failure.
      This one is not getting off to any better start.
      But, some of the pictures are decent, always my saving grace.
    La.83 makes a big "U" into the cane fields and marsh from US 90. One end of the loop is at Lydia. The other crosses 90 at the Baldwin exit. La.319 exits 83 on the western bottom of that "U" at Louisa.  Can't miss it. I like 83 coming from either direction, but, the Lydia side is my favorite because it crosses open marsh and has the big hill which is Weeks Island on its route.
   There's not going to be much information in this one. It will just be a picture preview of what you can see down there and what you could have seen if it hadn't been blown away.
    Enough jabbering. Here are the pictures.
   What an artsy little shot that was. Acturally, it wasn't planned like most of the good ones aren't, not that I consider it good, different, yes, Fred. You will notice that most of these pictures, taken in various years, were taken in the winter. Winter riding in South and Southwest LA is wonderful.
Winter's color is blue, summer's is green. Below Lydia, you are in the marsh.
We will be on La.83 until the turn off to Cypremort Pt.
Bridge tending by appointment.
Seems I like to come down here pretty much on schedule.
Taken, probably, from the Patout bridge looking west.
Below is from the last ride which spurred this rewrite. Taken in early August, 2006.
What looks like dry fields, isn't.
The colors were X10 what this picture translates. You need to ride down there.
Care to get really lost?
Three miles to the CP cut off and then 8 more to the Point.