Lake Charles LA

The ship emptied out pretty quickly this morning.

Pick any deck chair you like on the last morning!

We were out of our cabin by 8.30am, off the ship by 9.30am and eventually got out through immigration by 11.30am!  There were two ships in port at the same time and it was the full gambit, fingerprints etc.  Grabbed a taxi right outside the terminal to take us back to Bayou Shores then headed off east to Louisiana.

 

Stopped for food and a coffee at Walmart and then a brief stop at the Visitors Centre before leaving TX.  There was a bit of activity on the I 10, saw a nasty looking car wreck on the westbound lanes, which caused us to make a rather sudden stop - just over the brow of a hill - as the drivers on our lane were rubber necking, then as we were walking out of the Visitors Centre heard and saw a 18 wheeler have a blowout and screech to a stop spitting sparks some metres up the road.

Car wreck which nearly caused one on our side of the Interstate

We crossed the state line into Louisiana (got the ‘welcome to’ photo, dang - I’m getting good at this) and luckily scored the last large camp site at the Sam Houston Jones SP Lake Charles.   There’s lots of wild life here, we’ve seen squirrels, a raccoon, alligators, turtles, a stripey bright green garden snake, deer, bats (or at least a bat house and we could hear them squeeking) and more squirrels!

Cheeky little squirrel on our picnic table!

Not so cheeky alligator in the swamp, it liked the bread!

There’s  free laundry here, a nice surprise, so took advantage of that well and truly.  Ideal after just getting off a cruise ship.  It’s warm and sunny but we still crank up a campfire for the ambiance!