Road Trip 2015 - #2 Grand Isle State Park

August 31, 2015 - After leaving Pecan Island and as we began nearing Palmetto Island State Park - which I absolutely love and have dreamed of paddling - I posed a question to David.  What about Grand Isle?  We had never been, had heard good things and had three days before we needed to head toward Eunice for our annual Labor Day retreat.  He agreed and we headed toward one of the most southern points of Louisiana.  Hey, it was just another three hours on the road.  What a treat it turned out to be!

The state park was almost vacant when we arrived Monday afternoon.  I immediately found the beach...

...while David found the bay and caught us a couple of redfish for dinner!!  A local bartender gave us a grilling recipe for them which was really good.  We asked our neighbor camper Mr. Robert to join us for dinner and he reciprocated by bringing shrimp over the next night.  I decided to visit the bay as well...

The only thing that would've been better is if the dogs had not been restricted from the beach.  They would have had a blast chasing crabs.  Maybe it's better that they didn't get to do that.  They probably would have went after the dolphins as well!

After a couple beautiful sunsets, we left to join our friends in Eunice.