Another Saturday in NOLA (dial up users beware)

[crypticdragons]

Saturday we went to Cajun Pride Swamp Tours and Oak Alley Plantation (the plantation house from Interview With a vampire) and here are the photos from that day of fun and adventure.

 

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[Craiger]

Thems big lizards!

Guess those cats feel perfectly fine lounging around that close to the water's edge.

Oh....and the size of those grasshoppers!

 

[crypticdragons]

The hoppers are called devil hoppers cause of the size, color, and the horrible smell they emmit when agitated. Basically nothing around here will eat them.

And yeah they are some bigguns

And as to the cats. The gators are actually kinda freaked by the cats. i didnt get photos of it but a group of 5 scared a gator back into the water by swatting at it and hissing lol.

 

[Red Ink AUS]

Very nice area you have moved into Bri, looks like a lot f opportunity for some field herping. Some how looking at the pics a banjo plays in my head though lol.

Keep them coming y'all.

 

[Debbe]

Very nice pictures. Surprised you werent blessed with same snake pics. Those hoppers were HUGE. I find it entertaining the cats scared the gators. The plantantion was awesome. I love the swamp...

 

[Craiger]

Definitely interesting about the cats! Wow...

 

[zebraflavencs]

Anyone else hear that tick tock when that big gator showed up ?

Nice photos, Bri...
Kristin ! Brave woman you !

 

[staylor]

Great pictures.

 

[beardielover17]

Those gators were so cute! I jus wanna hug em! The hoppers were pretty but scary though.

 

[ladyknite]

Those gators were so cute! I jus wanna hug em! The hoppers were pretty but scary though.

lol................oh not so pretty picture. They don't hug back Candice.......well.........not exactly.

Great photo shoot Brian.

 

[beardielover17]

B-b-b-b-but they look like they are smiling :'( lol

 

[Debbe]

haha, I was thinking the person feeding them, well was inviting trouble, then I assumed it was some kind of "farm"...they did appear fat and happy. So did those hoppers. I wonder what they ate.

 

[TheVirus]

Anyone else hear that tick tock when that big gator showed up?

Haha! Good one Janie!

Awesome pics Brian. Do you know what kind of trees those were in front of Lestats House? I not familiar with N.O. species, but it looked like a oak. White oak maybe? :-\

 

[zebraflavencs]

Live oaks or water oaks, Tim... I have tons all over Savannah... some of the more spectacular ones with wide spreading limbs are called "angel oaks".

 

[crypticdragons]

haha, I was thinking the person feeding them, well was inviting trouble, then I assumed it was some kind of "farm"...they did appear fat and happy. So did those hoppers. I wonder what they ate.

Nope not a farm at all. This is a wild swamp the tour guide has been "dealing" with gators for 40+ years though so he knows a thing or 3 lol.

 

[Craiger]

haha, I was thinking the person feeding them, well was inviting trouble, then I assumed it was some kind of "farm"...they did appear fat and happy. So did those hoppers. I wonder what they ate.

Nope not a farm at all. This is a wild swamp the tour guide has been "dealing" with gators for 40+ years though so he knows a thing or 3 lol.

What happened to 2?

 

[crypticdragons]

haha, I was thinking the person feeding them, well was inviting trouble, then I assumed it was some kind of "farm"...they did appear fat and happy. So did those hoppers. I wonder what they ate.

Nope not a farm at all. This is a wild swamp the tour guide has been "dealing" with gators for 40+ years though so he knows a thing or 3 lol.

What happened to 2?

That was the time he decide to play with gators drunk and fell in the water thats where number 2 went (number 2 cause he said he thinks he may have sh!ted himself lol)