This portfolio includes images made for the Bayou Lafourche Historic Live Oak Tour (www.liveoaktour.com), a self-guided driving tour of historic live oaks along Bayou Lafourche with a brief history of each location. Funded through a grant from Louisiana Cajun Bayou, the Lafourche Parish Office of Tourism
The Bayou Lafourche Historic Live Oak Tour is about the stories—of the people, places, and events that the old oaks have witnessed. Lafourche parish is fortunate to have many of its historic oak trees still alive and growing. More than 400 oaks in Lafourche Parish have been registered with the Live Oak Society as notable oaks.
More than 100 of those 400 oaks are over a century old. Some of the oaks featured in this tour are more than 500 years of age. That means they were growing along Bayou Lafourche before Columbus set foot on the continent we now call “America.”
The Live Oak Tour also recognizes the role that these trees play in creating the unique sense of place that people associate with bayou life. Living here just wouldn’t be the same without these elder trees of the Louisiana landscape.
