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Manchac Swamp - Lousiana

1999-05-17

a real live swamp with alligators swimming around the boat as we went through

lookee here ... its a little critter ... shouldnt this be in the zoo section ?

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the swamp ... nothing special ... just water and dense vegetation

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a tree loaded with Spanish Moss ... this somewhat stringy white stuff they use to fill voodoo dolls with

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empty shack in the swamp ... with outhouse too

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an alligator following alongside the boat

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racoon at a distance

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slightly more visible now ...

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now here i was trying to snap up the alligator just as it jumped out of the water to grab the chicken ... guess i was a little too late :)

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better luck this time ... since it was a bigger alligator, the tour guide used a stick instead of his hand

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a baby alligator ... feels like ... snakeskin i guess ...

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an impressive jump out of the water ... and remember that this thing is jumping higher than the level at which we were sitting in the boat ...

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the tour operator ... who had lots of interesting patter to go along with the tour

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last updated on : 2000-06-14