Recreational activities, fishing, oystering and many related businesses are becoming a remote reality along coastal Louisiana as crude oil fouls the marshlands ~ with little relief in sight.
U.S. President announced today additional crews will be dispatched to areas of the oil-damaged Gulf. Meanwhile, the President's visit to the disaster area did not include oil-drenched wetlands. He walked along a sunny sandy beach surrounded by BP-clad "extras", bused-in for the photo-op, according to Anderson Cooper of CNN.
Update: On Sat.CNN journalists interview BP executives. The clean-up crews are dispatched each day to different locations. It was a coincident that the crew was on the same beach as the President.
Tragic news 6 PM Sat., May 29: The current attempts to stop the flow of oil has failed. Experts predict that it will be end of the August before the relief wells can solve the well disaster. Meanwhile, the heart-breaking, overwhelming question of reducing the impact on the ocean and coastline remains. Update: On Sat.CNN journalists interview BP executives. The clean-up crews are dispatched each day to different locations. It was a coincident that the crew was on the same beach as the President.
Female alligator guarding her chosen hideaway ~ preparing to build a nest. For sea creatures, it is spawning season.
Photos: Wetlands Kissimmee, Central Florida. Compliments of James Walker, Ontario.
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