The wonderful Katherine Kenworthy, cruiser manager of the North Pier Marina in Delcambre, continues to show us wonderful hospitality as she escorted us and another cruiser to Avery Island. Here we toured the Tabasco factory, sampled the many varieties of sauces, and took a driving tour of the Jungle Gardens.
Avery Island is on top of a salt dome so John was able to explain how salt domes were formed, the importance of finding this salt dome during early in the Civil War, and demonstrated salt dome formation using a paper towel and sissors (in his Swiss Army knife).
Although the majority of the peppers are now grown in other parts of the world, they are all processed on Avery Island into the many different tabasco sauce products.
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| The factory floor with a bottle counter. They process around 700,000 bottles each day during the 4 day work week. This was mid morning and they were almost at 65,000. |
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| John and Terry outside the Tabasco Shop |
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| Tabasco Shop where John got to taste Tobasco ice cream |
At the Jungle Gardens we saw gators, a Buddhist Temple, "bird city" of snowy egrets, and beautiful grounds. Bird City played an important role in bringing back Snowy Egrets from the point of near extinction. Here are a few pictures:
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| One of the many small gators we saw. |
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| Terry contemplating world events in front of Buddist Temple. |
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| John waving from scenic bridge - he is facing the Buddah Temple. |
We ended the day with our lovely hostess at a seafood restaruant in a nearby town called Shucks! We were told the bread pudding was a 12 on a scale from 1 to 10 and they did not lie!!!!
Well you said the magic words "bread pudding". Guess I will have to put Shucks on my places to eat map, so I can judge for myself next time through that area.
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