For most people, the only visible effects of the oil spill are on the ground. Photographer April Buffington took to the skies to document them from a different angle.

Blessed not to have been affected by the Gulf oil spill yet, the Barataria swamp and wetlands remain open to the Louisiana Swamp Tour.

Driving down Highway 1 and seeing all the seafood businesses that the Gulf oil spill could affect really saddened me.