Caminada Pass Grand Isle, La.Redfish and more

Made 2 trips down to Grand Isle last week, the first was on Tuesday 5/25/10. Spent some time initially on the West End of the island by Caminada Pass......things looked pretty clean at first, Anderson Cooper of CNN was arriving that day so this is no surprise, we started to find oil in very strange places, one being on the dry side of the jetties, which appeared to have been moved out a bit. I am very familiar with the area having spent a considerable amount of time shrimping and fishing on Elmers Island and Grand Isle, we have a family home down there....I was accompanied by friend and fellow photographer Andy Levin on my trips, when I suggested we stop looking on the sand and go back towards the marsh grass, he seemed a bit puzzled, but knowing the mindset of the locals, and trusting my gut, I felt that if there were shortcuts to be taken, that would be the place to look. Immediately upon entering the brush, the STRONG stench of death overcame me, and this is where we found at least 13 Bull Redfish, whole bodies, some covered in oil, discarded and rotting. No one would ever throw away such a catch and it was obvios to me what the cause of death was........additionally, we found the exposed freshlly rotting head of what appeared to be a dolphin, at the top of an unnatural sand mound about 20 yards away. On my return trip, I attempted to dig, but the smell was overwhelming, all kings of bones were surfacing and it was obvious to me what was under there. To me that would explain many strange occurrences at the west and east end of the island, namely solid oil being exposed under some places where one would walk, under the sand.......so how does oil get under the sand.......behind the jetties, the scary thing is that these are heart fish. Redfish this size would take 20 to 30 minutes to reel in for a fisherman, yet they apparently succumb to oil rather easily, as dolphins apparently do to. Why hasn't anyone heard about this, and why is BP burying such things without any reporting, warning, things are not as they appear through the media, and I am afraid that it will get a whole lot worse sooner than later.....And btw, on my return trip 5/28 the Dolphin head was nowhere to be found.......

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• Grand Isle
• BP Oil
• dead animals
• buried oil
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