We are staying in the French Quarter at the Provincial Hotel. Narrow streets and interesting architecture to say the least.
This is a happy place, touristy but not too pushy. Everyone is relaxed. Music at many of the cafes and restaurants.
This morning, we set out early at 7 to a local bakery to purchase some croissants for breakfast and then went for a swamp tour around 45 mins from here - very nice day, blue skies and the swamp was pretty awesome actually. This view taken as we travelled along the freeway toward the swamp.
We went to the Honey Island swamp tour East of NO. We saw alligators, raccoons, blue herons, turtles and one very large alligator, but no snakes although the guide told us the place was teeming with them.
This was a smaller alligator next to the boat whereas this big (below) brute was huge!
The blue herons are huge! Just beautiful.
The raccoons were super cute - families of them coming in the water to get food from the boat operator. I can really recommend this swamp tour - something I thought would be a bit depressing (swampy horror stories) was actually just lovely.
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