bayou photography - Louisiana nature preserve pt 2 - armadillo

I gotta post these too. We shot movies but they needed a tripod and were all crazy unstabilized.

This is the modern bayou:

This is the residual of the original:

The locals say there were miles and miles of these between the land and the ocean. When they discovered oil just past the trees, they cut little lines out between the land and the open water. Affecting less than 0.01% of the total landscape, the cutlines seemed innocuous.

Turned out the salt water could suddenly mix way farther back than before, and the oak trees were exposed to something entirely different, for which they all died. Thus the barrier between the land and ocean was irreparably destroyed. The locals say at least.

I wonder if the Texas coast ever had oak trees protecting the land mass from storms. They probably wished they had even cyprus last week.