[QUOTE=company man 1;36927]Can you do me a favor? On your way down, you can see the road to fourchon on your right. If you turn at that store & go straight down that road about two miles you will come to a bridge. When you go over the bridge the gulf is right there. That is Fourchon beach. Could you check it out for me. It is about 20-25 miles west of Grand Isle & I am wonderin how the water looks out there. There are always dolphins playing out by the jetties there & that is some of the best fishing, crabbing, & shrimping inthe world right out of those jetties. Could you check that out if you get time. It’s not far out of the way. You will notice the interactivity between the oilfield & the wild life there if all is well. At this timne of year you would see an armada of shrimp boats trawling right now. Traveling by Fourchon, you will understand why deepwater drilling is so improtant to Louisiana.
BTW, it might just be my imagination, but it appears as though the top of the stack & the containment cap are leaning pretty badly.[/QUOTE]
I stopped by Fourchon Beach this morning and Harbor Police had a pickup blocking the road going to the beach! So I couldn’t go there. There was definitely an oil smell there around 11:00. And I’m guessing that it wasn’t coming from Port Fourchon. When I went back there this evening, the smell had disappeared.
I drove quite a bit around the Port. This afternoon, I saw the Geodetic Surveyor headed out. (PDF info: http://www.fugro.com/showfile.aspx?type=vessels&id=GeodeticSurveyor2009&mode=download). It and the C-Commander were heading out at the same time but that may have been coincidence. I was very surprised as to the amount of oil and gas industry and people there.
The beaches at Grand Isle State Park were closed but they were letting people walk out on the pier and up the observation tower. I walked out to the end of the pier and could see probably half a dozen dolphins surfacing while feeding (I think). There were also quite a few boats out appearing to either be skimming or assisting in the cleanup operations somehow.