The River Road - Port Allen to Destrehan, LA

St. Raphael Cemetary

St. Raphael Cemetary

We had a most enjoyable drive along the River Road from Port Allen, LA to Destrehan. It was a beautiful day and the roads were full of trucks carrying sugar cane to the mill for processing. Lunch was great at the Grapevine Cafe and Grill in Donaldsonville.  We saw beautiful plantations and cemetaries and plenty of cane fields.

Cane field

Cane truck

A highlight for me was when we stopped along the road south of White Castle to watch the cane trucks dropping off loads of cut cane for processing at the Cora Texas Manufacturing plant where they grind the cane to produce raw sugar and black strap molasses.  Watch these videos to see some of the activity.
Video 1 - at Cora Texas
Video 2 - at Cora Texas
Processing at Cora Texas

Cora Texas sugar mill

Turtle soup - Grapevine Cafe

Eggplant wheelswith crabmeat au gratin

Evergreen Plantation - Edgard, LA

in Donaldsonville