You know Isle Grande Terre, Louisiana, from the
unbelievable pictures of oiled birds taken there last week. It's also the island
just to the east of Grand Isle, which I've been reporting on since
oil made landfall there several weeks ago. I wanted to check up on Grande Terre, and so to get there, and avoid a
BP escort, yesterday I got in a kayak with my intrepid former literature professor from the University of New Orleans and paddler extraordinaire, Dr. John Hazlett.
On the way, we beached ourselves on an uninhabited spit near Grand Isle State Park. It was completely covered in oil, and there were no cleanup crews in sight.
Read and see more:
http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2010/06/grande-terre-dolphin-towels-bp-cleanup
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