You become more attuned to nature down here. This is Andy Galliano, an electrician with a grandfatherly face, soft voice and dark-blue overalls. I m really getting into flowers and plants. I m starting to learn about birds, which is he laughs something that flew over my head. To live on Grand Isle is to live in nature.
Birds zoom overhead gulls with black heads, brown and white pelicans, purple martins.
Sea breezes play at your hair and clothes. Yellow flowers and deep-colored bluebonnets poke up from the grasses under your feet, sand gets into your shoes. And everywhere, the sound of the surf. Loud and soft, it is constant. Crash, slide crash, slide.