Team Pont Breaux, consisting this year of teenage triplets Carson, Conrad and Peyton Pellerin and Pat Guidry in a four-man kayak, busted their record in the Chitimacha 20 Saturday by 5 minutes and 39 seconds.
The Chitimacha 20, a marathon for canoes, kayaks and other paddle craft, will be held Saturday, May 14.
The race is 20 miles from New Iberia City Park to the Chitimacha Tribal Reservation in Charenton.
Lola, maybe the sweetest, certainly the smartest dog I’ve ever owned, died this month of pythiosis, also known as water mold infection or “swamp cancer.”
It’s a deadly fungal infection caused by a parasite, Pythium insidiosum, found in tropical and subtropical waters. She likely got it accompanying me into the Atchafalaya Basin.
Three-man boats dominated last Saturday’s Top of the Teche, a 7.7-mile race for paddlers on Bayou Teche from Leonville to Arnaudville.
UPDATE: THE CLASSIQUE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL APRIL 25-MAY 1 DUE TO OIL SPILL.
The 3rd annual Cajun Classique, a week-long wooden boat cruise on Bayou Teche, will start April 4 in Berwick and end in Leonville on April 10, a leisurely cruise of about 125 miles.