A Grand Isle bar in Louisiana’s most remote and most genuinely wild barrier island community — Grand Isle is the only inhabited barrier island in Louisiana, sitting at the end of the bayou road where the Mississippi River delta meets the Gulf of Mexico and the land literally ends — the Hurricane Hole delivers cold drinks and the extraordinary, elemental Louisiana Gulf Coast character of a community that lives at the edge of the continent with the particular resilience and warmth of a people shaped by hurricanes, tides, and the extraordinary productivity of the Louisiana coastal ecosystem.
