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In the late 19th century, E.L. McIlhenney began raising peppers on his settlement outside New Iberia, Lousiana, and making a Tabasco sauce that has become world famous. Still a family enterprise, the company has opened it’s 700-acre Jungle Garden to the public, and it made for a wonderful two-hour bike ride.
In addition to hundreds of varieties of camellia, azalea, palm, bamboo, live oak, and other subtropical plants, the Garden is home to a breeding colony of 20,000 snowy egrets, visible in trees and artificial roosts rising from a small lake. There are so many egrets that every spring thirty truckloads of sticks and branches are brought in for them to use to build their nests when they return from winter in South America.
All this atop one of the world’s largest salt domes... and an active—though very well hidden—oil field. –DJN