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Shell Beach, St. Bernard Parish, LA.
Shell Beach, a fishing village, located in the wetlands where Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish splinters into the Gulf of Mexico. Although only 25 miles east of New Orleans, the area feels as remote as anywhere: insular communities of stilted homes and weather-beaten trailers that locals refer to, with no shortage of pride, as “the end of the world.” Most inhabitants can trace their lineage back to the isleños, or islanders, as the Canary Island settlers who established the region in the late 1700s were known. Commercial shrimpers have a daunting routine, out in the Gulf for days: trawling by night, sleeping by day, an equilibrium-tweaking typical outing. The brown shrimp that have provided so much for these families over the years, homes, vehicles, food and clothing , a way of life.
Shell Beach, St. Bernard Parish, LA.
Shell Beach, a fishing village, located in the wetlands where Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish splinters into the Gulf of Mexico. Although only 25 miles east of New Orleans, the area feels as remote as anywhere: insular communities of stilted homes and weather-beaten trailers that locals refer to, with no shortage of pride, as “the end of the world.” Most inhabitants can trace their lineage back to the isleños, or islanders, as the Canary Island settlers who established the region in the late 1700s were known. Commercial shrimpers have a daunting routine, out in the Gulf for days: trawling by night, sleeping by day, an equilibrium-tweaking typical outing. The brown shrimp that have provided so much for these families over the years, homes, vehicles, food and clothing , a way of life.