New Orleans Part One: Swamp Tour

For my first full day in N.O. I went on a swamp tour with some of my family. We drove out to the "west bank", about 20 min. from down town N.O. to Jean Lafitte's Swamp. We stopped on the way for some Po' boys.



The parking lot was quite a scene, cats were roaming all over,


there were plenty of souvenirs, including gator pencils:

The swamp itself was a sight to behold, so different than anything up north.



Here is our tour guide, he said he doesn't live in a shack like Bobby Bouchet from The Waterboy, but his grandparents did.


Since it is winter, the big gators were hibernating, so we only saw baby gators. Spot the gator:

There was a gator on board the boat that we passed around:


I'll have to go back in the spring when the gators are huge and come up to the boat begging for marshmallows.