[bert]

OK,here’s the deal. Avery Island is a money pit

Here’s my eyes on testimony.

To visit the island and the Tabasco kitchen one must cross a very short bridge to the island where there is a toll booth. You must pay the toll to proceed. You can visit the factory which is really anticlimactic but there is a large store selling every kind of Tabasco suvinier imagineable from recipe books to clocks with coffee mugs in between. Oh and of course all the different Tabasco products.

You learn that the island is home to folks taht work there, in the village. You also learn that sometime ago, it was learned that the islans sat atop a very large salt deposit. Salt mining was initiated and is still in progress.

Later, it was learned that under the salt was oil. The oil was drilled and produces currently.

It was also learned that the low country live oak spanish moss ambience including many bird species and animals drew tourists. So, a tourist wild life park was developed for those wishing to pay.

Outside the Tabasco Store/ Manufacturing facility is an outdoor eating area and a food truck producing jambalaya and filet gumbo that are absolutely scrumptious and the smells are so fantastic that passing the opportunity is impossible.

[T-Bird45]

“Avery Island is a money pit.”

You state that like it’s a bad thing. Does all that free enterprise you detailed just make you itchy all over or something???

[JimRed]

...it was learned that the islans sat atop a very large salt deposit. Salt mining was initiated and is still in progress.

Later, it was learned that under the salt was oil. The oil was drilled and produces currently.

Each of which may well be adding to the subsidence. Dig or pump too much from underneath without replacing it and the land will subside.