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Photo: USCG, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
An 1858 Egyptian Revival-style light that used to guide ships around the Southwest Reef and into the Atchafalaya River before being relocated to its present location across from Morgan City.
Southwest Reef Light is a historic lighthouse built in 1856 at the end of Southwest Reef in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana to replace lightships which had been stationed there for ten years. It served to guide vessels around the reef and into the main channel of the Atchafalaya River. It was discontinued in 1916 after a new, shorter and deeper, channel had been dredged across the reef, making it obsolete. Point Au Fer Reef Light took over its function.
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This is one of the few opportunities available for the public to access and explore an offshore oil rig, although this one is actually in the rather shallow waters of the Atchafalaya River and Bayou Boeuf. You can explore the platform, and the International Petroleum Museum & Exposition, Inc. with exhibits such as underwater diving dioramas to check out.
The Union base that the Confederacy seized and obliterated in the most clandestine manner. Today just modest remnants of earthworks are about all that remain.
Petting zoo, probably more for kids.
A swamp beach of sorts on Lake Palourde but surprisingly one with nice almost white sand, and the quintessential cypress trees here and there popping out.
Another park with water views and access, but this one with an appealing carillon tower.
This is like a hodge-podge of aviation and sawmill curation that can be quite engrossing.