Experience NATURE at its best...

This Louisiana swamp tour of Cajun Country is less than six miles from Interstate 10’s EXIT 109 . From Exit 109 your personalized swamp tour is just 15 minutes away in a beautiful surreal Louisiana cypress swamp that is sure to charm and excite your imagination. On the way you will cross the historic Bayou Teche and pass through the small Cajun town of Breaux Bridge. The swamp tour guide is a native experienced commercial fisherman and avid outdoors man who also holds college degrees in Zoology and Botany. The swamp tour area, Cypress Island/Lake Martin Swamp, is famous for it’s impressive scenic beauty and wildlife. Alligators, egrets, herons, bayous, ancient cypress trees covered with Spanish moss and more of what you envision a Louisiana swamp to be are waiting for you on Cajun Country Swamp Tours. The boat tour is conducted in an open Cajun boat(crawfish skiff) that is small enough to get us into the heart of cypress swamps yet large enough to accommodate 15 large adults easily. Arrangements for larger groups can be made. The tour boat is powered by an environmentally friendly and very quiet 4-stroke outboard motor. Cajun Country Swamp Tours operates swamp ecotours all year round by appointments to take you on a swamp tour that you will long remember with fond memories.

Some of what you will learn on Cajun Country Swamp Tours

WHY?:

1. Lake Martin Swamp has no mosquitos.

2. Lake Martin Swamp has a substantial population of alligators of over 10 feet long.

3. This Cajun swamp has the largest wading bird rookery in the southern United States.

4. Many of the largest living cypress trees in the Cypress Island/Lake Martin Swamp are hollow.

5. Some cypress lumber last forever and some cypress lumber decays very easily.

6. Tupelo tree lumber (gum wood) is not as durable as cypress wood.

7. Discarded fishing line is a death trap to anhingas.

WHAT?:

1. Herons are named Gros Bec (Big Beak) by Cajuns.

2. Birds are named Bec Croche(Crooked Beak) by Cajuns.

3. Is Cajun.

4. Is Creole.

5. Birds nest in this St. Martin Parish swamp.

6. Are “whistling chickens” & “summer ducks” and why the local natives use these terms.

7. Does Gros Bec cypress refer to.

8. Is the champion cypress tree’s name and where is it located.

9. Is the reason so few snakes are found in Lake Martin Swamp today.

10. Is a bayou.

HOW?:

1. The land of Acadiana was formed.

2. To tell the relative depth of the swamp by the swamp’s vegetation.

3. Alligators build their nest.

4. Alligators are hunted today and yesteryears.

5. Alligators help the herons and egrets of the bird rookery.

7. Crawfish are caught and brought to market..

8. The wading birds build nest and raise their young.

9. Man’s intervention with the Cypress Island/Lake Martin Backwater swamp lead to the largest wading bird rookery in the south.

Copyright Walter Guchereau
April 2005

For some of what you might see on Cajun Country Swamp Tours check out the Photo Gallery
All photos are from actual swamp tours

For a Louisiana swamp tour that is more than just a boat ride come along with me off the beaten path and experience my passion and Joie de Vivre! (Joy of Life)