Swamp Tour

Poor Tanya, after getting home late last night from the St Patricks day parade, she had to pack, shower and get ready for departure this morning before 8:30am to do our swamp tour.

Here is a picture of our boat, our captain was Captain Coyote, quite a clown and very good story teller.


Cute little sign before you got on the boat.

And here we go off into the Bayou

First little gator resting on a tree stump.

Stayed long enough to get a good picture of him.


This little fellow was waiting for the marshmallows thrown to him from the boat, he was so cute having his snack.

And then here is Captain Coyote feeling the bigger gators. Crazy. He feeds them chicken.

He had 7 stiches in one hand from not being quite quick enough one day.

The Bayou was very quiet, just the sounds of the birds and water creatures.

Sitting looking down at us was this beautiful osprey.

There were lots of different birds.

And we saw lots of little turtles but Captain Coyote wanted to show us this fellow that grows up to be quite big. He was an ugly little fellow and was quite upset about being on display.

And there was Elvis the alligator, he is about a year and a half old and they are going to release him into the bayou today. He was very interesting feeling, sort of like a really nice handbag.

And of course the old cabin in the bayou, we could not have done without that.

Great tour, would not have missed it for the world. After this we had to get Tanya to the airport and she is on her way to Phoenix now to join up with her fellows, just loved having her here.