Parks - Saint Martinville - Saint John
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 5.96 nm
- Elevation gain
- 3 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3 ft
- Max elevation
- 12 ft
- TrailRank
- 59
- Min elevation
- 8 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 2 hours 15 minutes
- Time
- 3 hours 40 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1420
- Uploaded
- January 1, 2024
- Recorded
- December 2023
near Parks, Louisiana (United States)
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Itinerary description
1019 Periou St, Parks, LA 70582
There's a high sided canoe / kayak launch with a 45 degree side launch and one overhanded slot launch. There is also a well maintained concrete boat ramp.
There is a RR facility and the women's side was unlocked, clean and stocked.
13 souls including a well behaved canine after shuttling launched their floating thingies into perfect 60 degree air and clean wispy clouds.
Wind was negligible until the last mile or so when the light headwinds decided to meet up with us.
This is Teche milage 42.2 to 49.2.
Waypoints
Mooring point
Tree
9 ft
More Live oak
Live oaks have extensive root systems that can reach 60 feet deep to tap into underground water sources. This allows them to thrive even during droughts.
Bridge
Information point
Ruins
8 ft
Concrete sailboat ruins cause I think it's beyond feasable repair and thus nigh future navigation.
World War Woes: During World War I and II, steel shortages pushed nations to explore alternative shipbuilding materials. Concrete readily available and inexpensive, became a surprisingly viable option. The U.S. even built 43 concrete ships during WWI, with 12 successfully sailing into civilian service after the war.
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8 ft
3 Chimneys
Easily a 1900 century home of elevated stature. Note 2 large, tall and collard tops. Centrally located whole house fire places that are easily 40 feet from footing to chimney top. Also a small fp in the far left kitchen structure. Brick fp's are really large structures when they start to get table. The 2 big ones could be each sitting on a footing made a bricks 10' x 10' x 10'. To carry the massive brick load above in soft clay subsoil bank conditions. Thousands of bricks probably fired very nearby or even on property. Homemade lime made by burning oyster shells would have been central to the lime mortar. Just a few courses of bricks and mortar could be laid per week or couple days as lime cures slower than concrete. If concrete was available at construction it was still expensive and time consuming material. After many months of construction these monoliths weighing many many tons would and have endured millenia for me to geek out on today. Bonus points for the hand made sheet metal vent with scalloped cap that helps keep the 2 story stucture cool via convection venting. These people were affluent.
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Beautiful day for paddling
How'd you like that concrete boat?
Oh yes it was great. Warmer than yesterday's paddle with more wind.
Fascinating to see one in the wild. As a homemade floating home fan I was aware of US navy made floating dorms.