minnowman
minnowman
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Tuesday we took the grandkids to Avery Island to see the jungle gardens and the tabasco bottling plant. Avery Island is a hill of land pushed up by a salt dome in the marsh South of New Iberia,La. It became the first rock salt mine in North America in 1862 when salt was found just 16 feet below the surface. The jungle garden was created over a hundred years ago with azaleas, camellias, wisteria, bamboo, and many native plants.
Most of the plants had finished blooming, but the spring foliage was beautiful after an overnight rain. Resurrection ferns and spanish moss cover the live oak trees. The children especially liked the alligators basking in the sun and the Snowy Egret nesting colony, which was created to save them from extinction.
There is also a 900 year old metal Buddha statue in its shrine situated over its reflecting pond.
Most of the plants had finished blooming, but the spring foliage was beautiful after an overnight rain. Resurrection ferns and spanish moss cover the live oak trees. The children especially liked the alligators basking in the sun and the Snowy Egret nesting colony, which was created to save them from extinction.
There is also a 900 year old metal Buddha statue in its shrine situated over its reflecting pond.
