Born in 1960, played and swam on the banks of this bayou. I shrimped, trapped, ran crew boats on this very Spot. After running crew boats for my father, I worked at United Gas Pipeline for 15 years, and last another 15 years of pipelining for Bp.
My family ancestry is directly from France, and our first ancestor made is home in New Orleans, and most likely lived on Lapeyrouse street, which is still a street today. After 9 children, he and several sons applied for public lands after serving for the military, this is how we acquired property from the Louisiana Purchase. Farmering, trapping, and oysters industry prospered. Shrimping industry in the early 1900's was non existent. Then the China Man came, and started a revolution of processing dried shrimp, and they had the market. My Great grandfather started, and my Grandfather was the last to process dried shrimp. The oil field boomed, and we became involved in the boat rental business. My father rebuilt the shrimp shed, our camp now in 1987. He retired around 97, and the camp it has been till today. Hope you enjoy this lil bit of history, as much as you love coming to Cocodrie