{"id":2258,"date":"2016-10-03T23:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2016-10-04T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T21:35:32","slug":"whos-your-crawdaddy-new-orleans-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Your Crawdaddy? (New Orleans, Day One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my room, with an unfeasible number of pillows and a sort of cushioned pool noodle thing.<\/p>\n

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And a view of Canal Street.<\/p>\n

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And hotel corridors which are … a little unusual in the lighting department.<\/p>\n

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That said, the whole hotel is a bit unusual.<\/p>\n

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\nInteresting lobby music though, which is a nice change.<\/p>\n

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I slept in a little, had Lost Bread for breakfast\u00a0(it turns out to be French Toast, but more gooey)<\/em> and ambled down Canal Street and along the river.<\/p>\n

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And in the course of ambling, found a place where I could take a lunchtime Jazz Cruise on the Natchez, 9th of it’s name.<\/p>\n

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It’s got a steam carillon, which they play … well, because they can.<\/p>\n

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And, to the left of the boat and the right of the picture, the Lower 9th Ward.<\/p>\n

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I’m pretty sure this is Jackson Barrracks<\/a>\u00a0– I should maybe take a few fewer photos and a few more notes?<\/p>\n

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Former car-part plant & current sugar refinery.
\nI did try to get a shot of the big-ass scoop picking up raw sugar from that boat on the right, but … it came out grainy?<\/p>\n

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OK, it was too cluttered a background to see what the hell was going on.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sittin’ up the front, enjoying the ride down the river.
\nThere’s the Captain’s Saloon off to the right, where one of the folk at the bar recognised my Dr. Who shirt; She was the second member of the Natchez team to do so, so apparently they’re a bunch of nerds.<\/p>\n

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A profusion of flags;
\nBarely visible to the right of the smokestack is the Jack of the United States<\/a>, which I’d not realised was a thing.
\nThe nearly indistinguishable one is the Flag of New Orleans<\/a>.
\nBlue with 3 Gold Fleurs-De-Lis is a historical French-In-The-Americas thing, from what I can tell.<\/p>\n

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The ferry lets us go by, …<\/p>\n

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In addition to a steam calliope, the Natchez also has a steam whistle.
\nQuite a loud one, as it happens.<\/p>\n

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The Natchez, even though it only dates back to 1975, is a steamship, and runs like a much older type of ship.
\nEngine room telegraph\u00a0(I wandered through the engine room, but took no photos)<\/em>, and orders relayed to the helm by one of those big cone speaking trumpets.<\/p>\n

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