A relaxing day on the bayou. We started with a hike around the Bayou Segnette Park. It was less than 2 hours but we saw some good stuff. A couple birds, an armadillo. Cal pulled away to go chase the armadillo but it didn't respond so he just sniffed it and came back to us with a disappointed look.
Early afternoon we took a boat tour of the bayou. This retired Marine was a local boy, had stories of growing up here, hunting alligators and other things. We lucked out and only had 6 people on the boat, so we had lots of room to move about and see everything he pointed out. He had a good eye for gators and other wildlife on the water. And what an ACCENT!
This evening we went out for crawfish. Carlene and I split 5# between us. We went with Stevie and Jayne from Huntington and their friends Michael and Marian Abajian from Montpelier. I knew his brother as a Ham many years ago. We had a great time and the crawfish were delicious.
On this mornings walk:
Great Blue Heron, fishing and flying
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| Grass trail, not what we are used to! |
On the tour; "Cajun Swamp Tours"
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| Our boat |
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| The first gator, approaching a marshmallow which out tour guide threw out to them to attract them to the boat |
A few gators and turtles we saw
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| Great Egret, with a salamander in it's beak! |
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| A 13' male and a female gator |
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| Our guide, we think his name is Jim, but if he told us we are not sure we heard it right |
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| Crawfish |
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| Our campsite at Bayou Segnette State Park |
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