What's a trip to Louisiana without a swamp tour?? Honey Island Swamp Tours should do the trick. Yesterday we drove a little south and a lot west to get to Vacherie for a plantation, today we drove north and east to Slidell for the swamp tour. We are definitely seeing the New Orleans area.
All aboard!
Here's our boat captain showing us a crawfish trap (complete with live crawfish) and explaining how they work.
One of many turtle sightings.
Some cypress trees surrounded by "knees," which are part of the root system and allow air and nutrients to get to the tree.
There's a gator in there! She's only about 4 feet long and was the only one we sighted, but we did see a gator!
A shrimp boat and a "camp" ... interesting buildings with electricity but no running water are on the Pearl River. Then there are areas with really nice homes with both electricity and "city water." A majority of the area is a protected wildlife area--The Nature Conservancy's First Louisiana Nature Preserve.
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