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Cameron, La.
- Thread starter rduhon
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I worked on a AHTS boat for about five years during the later half of the 1970's and we ran out of Cameron, Grande Chenier and Galveston, but mostly Cameron. The crabbing was always good in the bayous near the mud company dock and the Amin Oil Dock. We would play tennis at the court in downtown when we able to sneak off the boat for a few hours. I've been in and out of those jetties hundreds of times, many times in zero visibility. Pretty little town. Now the odor coming from the Poggie Plants when they were cooking was a different story.
Hurricane dumped a lil rain. Sucked a couple ft. of water out of the lake above town. Not much else.
There was 3 Pogy plants in Cameron back in the 70's. Only one left now. What company did you work for?
My dad was the local a/c man in Cameron.
There was 3 Pogy plants in Cameron back in the 70's. Only one left now. What company did you work for?
My dad was the local a/c man in Cameron.
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Thanks Raymond. Beautiful, just as we remember.
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That Island under the Western sun is Monkey Island. They Sucker dredged the Channel in front of Cameron to make it a nice deep water port.
They had HUGE sucker dredges off the edge of Cameron, pumping the sand through giant Pipes, down the river to Monkey Island, passing under the river there and dumping all that sand just west of the Bank you see.
Rduhon, is the Island and Port still there? I haven't been back since right after Rita died out.
They had HUGE sucker dredges off the edge of Cameron, pumping the sand through giant Pipes, down the river to Monkey Island, passing under the river there and dumping all that sand just west of the Bank you see.
Rduhon, is the Island and Port still there? I haven't been back since right after Rita died out.
Monkey Island is still there. No ferry since it sank for Rita. But the Pilot Station is located on the South end of the island.
Cameron is a big port on the GOM. At one time, it was second in the U.S. for seafood, behind an Alaskan port.
It still has a good bit of seafood, but not like in it's hay day. Still a deepwater port for oil and gas drilling and exploration.
Port of Lake Charles, up the channel is 11th in the nation in tonnage.
They have to dredge the whole channel, except for the area that passed thru Cameron. It self scours itself for a few miles before t hits the GOM. The Cameron Loop, around Monkey Island was just dredged and the spoil dumped on the West side of the jettys.
The East Fork, just North of town was also dredged up to the end of the commercial docks.
Cameron is a big port on the GOM. At one time, it was second in the U.S. for seafood, behind an Alaskan port.
It still has a good bit of seafood, but not like in it's hay day. Still a deepwater port for oil and gas drilling and exploration.
Port of Lake Charles, up the channel is 11th in the nation in tonnage.
They have to dredge the whole channel, except for the area that passed thru Cameron. It self scours itself for a few miles before t hits the GOM. The Cameron Loop, around Monkey Island was just dredged and the spoil dumped on the West side of the jettys.
The East Fork, just North of town was also dredged up to the end of the commercial docks.
The poggie tonnage kind of skewed the seafood figures for several GoM ports. Millions of tons of poggies were landed and thus the seafood ranking. I don't think anybody ever ate an ounce of poggie but the fish oil was used in drugs and cosmetics, There were tons of shrimp landed there but mainly menhaden.
The High Island East Addition field was opened up and serviced from Cameron. I hauled miles and miles of casing and drill pipe from the Port of Cameron out to drill platforms in High Island E.A. We ran anchors for some of the pipeline lay barges that connected the production platforms to shore.
Is the USCG station still on the southern tip of Monkey Island?
The tankers/big chemical boats would steam past Cameron en-route to the Port of Lake Charles and you had to keep a sharp eye out for them in heavy fog. Crossing the sea lane outbound from the port of Galveston was always a challenge. I go to Galveston about every month and I keep saying I will head back east through Sabine, Cameron and then on to Morgan City, but I end up staying on I-10 for the quick route.
The High Island East Addition field was opened up and serviced from Cameron. I hauled miles and miles of casing and drill pipe from the Port of Cameron out to drill platforms in High Island E.A. We ran anchors for some of the pipeline lay barges that connected the production platforms to shore.
Is the USCG station still on the southern tip of Monkey Island?
The tankers/big chemical boats would steam past Cameron en-route to the Port of Lake Charles and you had to keep a sharp eye out for them in heavy fog. Crossing the sea lane outbound from the port of Galveston was always a challenge. I go to Galveston about every month and I keep saying I will head back east through Sabine, Cameron and then on to Morgan City, but I end up staying on I-10 for the quick route.
Coast Guard station closed in the late 80's. There was one in Sabine Pass, just a few miles to the West
and another in Galveston.
They started cutting back and shut that one down. It was mainly a beacon station with one small cutter.
The USCG has 13 of them orange twin outboard boats with 50 Cal. mounted on the front up in Lake Charles.
They have 3 in the water for port security and one for boater compliance.
There is still a lot of drilling support vessels that go in and out of Cameron, and a few production vessels.
and another in Galveston.
They started cutting back and shut that one down. It was mainly a beacon station with one small cutter.
The USCG has 13 of them orange twin outboard boats with 50 Cal. mounted on the front up in Lake Charles.
They have 3 in the water for port security and one for boater compliance.
There is still a lot of drilling support vessels that go in and out of Cameron, and a few production vessels.