Well the park doesn't have a yellow brick road, but there are some nice paths cut through the dense palmetto so we were about to take a long walk and go exploring. We got our copy of the park's map and then quickly looked at their pamphlet entitled "Harmful Animals and Plants: A Visitor's Advisory for Louisiana State Parks, Historic Sites and Preservation Areas."
Hmmmm.....OK, I learned that you can distinguish between venomous and non-venomous snakes by the shape of the pupils in their eyes. Louisiana has cottonmouth, rattle snakes, coral snakes and copperheads. Excuse me, but if I see ANY kind of snake I am not sticking around to try to figure out if it has round or vertical pupils.
And then there are the black widow and brown recluse spiders. And the stinging caterpillars, wasps and fire ants. (Fenway lifted his leg on a fire ant mound earlier in the week and it was NOT fun trying to rescue him from the ants racing up his legs!) And then we might find bees, horseflies and mosquitoes. Oh....and of course the alligators and occasional wild pigs.
If we are really lucky we may also find ticks and redbugs and chiggers.....or, unintentionally brush up against poison ivy, poison oak or poison sumac.
I did go for a two mile walk up the road to mail some postcards at the park office.....so I think I am going to use the very nice park facilities to do the laundry.
Then I plan to hide in the RV and read a book.
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