Finally Have Seen the Real Mississippi Delta

I have finally seen the real MS Delta.  It is located due east of New Orleans 40 to 60 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico and south of the state of Mississippi.  The sediment was deposited very long ago when the main branch of the Mississippi River headed way north and east of where it is going today.  Yes the mouth of the MS River has moved all over the place. You would think that if you traveled farther into the Gulf of Mexico it would become deeper but not in this case it gets shallower around +1 to 7 ft deep in the tidal creeks.  It is a complete spartina estuarine marsh. It looks like the Everglades without the freshwater, tree islands and the wet and dry seasons.  It is a Georgia salt water marsh but  a million times larger in an area of the Gulf of Mexico that should 100 ft deep but you can get out of your boat and walk on it.  We saw 55 loons in 4 hours a record for us. It may have been the first census of loons in this area maybe ever but that is not all. We saw, white pelicans, rails, tricolor herons, marsh hawks by the dozens, willettes by the hundreds, dolphins, fish, and grebes and more.