Swamp Boat Tour

To a couple of ole Northwesterners (turned Californians), the freshwater swamps of Louisiana are quite exotic. Our boat tour of a Louisiana swamp was through a classic swamp landscape of bald cypress and water tupelo trees draped with cascades of Spanish moss. The floral and fauna are all new to us. Our skilled and humorous Cajun skipper steered us through the tannic brown waters and into close proximity to alligators, turtles, nutria (giant swamp rats from South America), a great blue heron rockery, and many other birds. A swamp is typically a flooded area off of a bayou. A bayou is more like a creek with a continual water flow, however sluggish that flow may be. So a true swamp will dry out every year and this gives new plants and trees a chance to establish themselves. Thus a swamp is a forested wetland, characterized by the natural growth of trees.




Swamp Sights