{"id":87,"date":"2011-06-05T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-06-07T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:12:10","slug":"atchafalaya-swamp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/archives\/87","title":{"rendered":"Atchafalaya Swamp Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Cruising at the flooding swamps by I-10 freeway at Henderson, Louisiana. <!--more-->The Mississippi river flooding upstate was deliberately redirected toward the Atchafalaya swamp bank to prevent New Orleans and Baton Rouge from suffering flooding. As a result, the water table at the swamp rose by more than 20 feet.<\/address>\n<h2>Swamp tours<\/h2>\n<p>Swamp tours are available from many landings in the Atchafalaya Basin; you&#8217;ll pass numerous signs pinned to the old cypress trees along the roadside. The basin is an eerie place: in some places cars cut right across on the enormous concrete I-10 above, and old houseboats lie abandoned. The best tours take you further out, to the backwoods; wherever you go you&#8217;ll see scores of fishing boats and plenty of wildlife, including sunbathing alligators. The tours below are conducted by Cajuns who see the basin as more than just a tourist attraction and provide fascinating personal commentaries.<\/p>\n<p>The Atchafalaya Experience 338 N Sterling St, Lafayette  337\/261-5150,   www.theatchafalayaexperience.com . The son in this father-son team is a geologist; both guides are lifelong explorers of the swamp, and tours are ecologically sensitive. Daily 9.30am; 3hr 30min (2hr touring the swamp itself); reservations required; $50.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Champagne Lake Martin Landing, Rookery Rd, Breaux Bridge  337\/845-5567,   www.champagnesswamptours.com . Champagne navigates a small crawfish skiff through the bird-rich Cypress Island Swamp \u2013 lots of opportunity for alligator-spotting. Tours daily; call for schedules; 2hr; $20.<\/p>\n<p>McGee&#8217;s Swamp Tours McGee&#8217;s Landing, 1337 Henderson Levee Rd, Breaux Bridge  337\/228-2384,  www.mcgeeslanding.com . Twenty-five minutes from Lafayette (take I-10 to exit 115, then highways 347 and 352), this quiet landing offers leisurely tours run from Henderson Swamp, a top fishing spot, as well as live music. Daily 10am, 1pm &#038; 3pm; 90min; reservations recommended; $20.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<address>Quoted from roughguides.com<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruising at the flooding swamps by I-10 freeway at Henderson, Louisiana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-destination","category-louisiana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biei.us\/bluelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}