JIM CONRAD’S NATURALIST NEWSLETTER
Written and issued from the woods near Natchez,
Mississippi, USA
February 16, 2009
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BAYOU WALKING
In most of the US bayous are thought of as small,
slow-moving streams or creeks, or lakes associated
with the Deep South’s swamps and rivers. Around here
bayous are something else entirely. Most people
outside the region would refer to our bayous as deep,
steep-walled, sandy-bottomed gullies or ravines that
usually are dry, except after rains. You can see Karen
hiking down the bayou below her house at
http://www.backyardnature.net/
