Chalmette/Lower Algiers Ferry, St. Bernard Parish and the Ninth Ward

We left the museum and drove through Algiers on the opposite bank of the Mississippi River from the Ninth Ward.  Although there is still damage left from Hurricane Katrina, a lot of this section of Algiers has been rebuilt.  We saw many beautiful, large, old southern style homes.  From Algiers we took the Chalmette/Lower Algiers ferry to the Ninth Ward.

We crossed over the Industrial Canal and drove through the Ninth Ward.


The destruction Katrina left behind is still evident today.  Although much of New Orleans has been rebuilt, there are still a lot of open fields where houses once stood, foundations of homes that were washed away, and businesses that have never reopened.