Lake Pontchartrain is an estuary in Louisiana near New Orleans. I flew in a day early for the Grand Isle adventure and discovered that Lake Pontchartrain was across the street from the hotel. Jerry and I walked over to the lake Sunday morning to see what we could see. There were two Brown Pelicans, Louisiana’s state bird, sleeping on a piling out in the lake, some gulls including Laughing Gulls, and a pair of Mallards paddling by as we watched from the shore.