Dunno what to call this!

I don't seem to be getting the time to put stuff up and it is not relevant time wise so you are gunna get what you get!

We arrived in Chicago 3 nights ago! The Conference is over, papers presented, posters talked about. The poster will be back in Australia next week. New Orleans is a great city and we got to do a lot of things even with the Conference to attend! The feature for me, and I think for Silver too, is getting to talk to people and hear their stories. One of the highlights was going out into the swamp with a creole fisherman and listening to the stories he had to tell.

He showed us a Cajun Fishing Village and told us the house standing had water 2'deep inside the house and the house next door had been lost during Katrina. We went into the swamp, which is the water settled and spread out over the land [no mozzies so still moving water]; bayou is the area craved out by the river in a flood [billabong or annabranch] and the river itself is very fast moving!