2025 Preseason...

[DComeaux]

Call and I enjoyed the sight and sound of our year's first specks, a nice flight of maybe 20, passing well within working range while on our morning round of some rice a friend is putting crawfish water on.

I like reading that.

[Rick]

Thought I'd just managed blue sky pics when trying to catch those first, and so far only, specks with my phone while wearing shades but just found this among them:

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Was sorting through some taken this morning while refueling our new marsh saver:

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[Darren]

Hows the salinity of that pumped water? Recall there being concerns of saltiness in the past during perhaps worse drought conditions than we have now.

Did that salt in the past end up doing much noticeable harm?

[Rick]

That I can't answer your question about the ICW's current salinity tells me it's been too long since I've sat with farmer friends whose water depends on it. Can say that two falls ago the drought was such that we were pumping shrimp and flounder into the Cherry ridge marsh, and it's vegetation returned with a vengeance the following year. Wish it and/or last year's freeze were enough to knock out the salvinia we've been spraying...