Bayou des Cannes

The bayou is 66 miles (106 km) long[2] and is navigable near the shallow-draft port at the mouth.

[4] The scenery of the area contained slow moving water, draped with moss-covered cypress trees and tupelo.

[6] During the 1930s, the Point-Aux-Loups (point-ah-loo) (French for "Wolves Point") Springs Ballroom was originally built by the Louisiana Irrigation & Mills Company.

This brick structure served as the main pumping plant which serviced southwest Louisiana farmers with irrigation to their rice crops.

The building housed two large Fairbanks-Morse engines that pumped water at 60,000 US gallons per minute (230,000 L/min) out of Bayou des Cannes and into the flumes that carried water 0.25 miles (400 m) above ground into man-made canals throughout Acadia Parish.