Wandering Browns

The cute tour shack About an hour west of Baton Rouge, off of I-10 is the cute community of Breaux Bridge. Nearby the town is a big lake, swamp and bayou. There are a few different tour companies that run swamp tours from this area, and we chose Champagne's Cajun Swamp tours because they were responsive to my inquiries.  My boys in the boat After a few minutes of waiting around the shack, we were invited into our boat. The tours take place on boats with 12 other people, so the tours are small and the boats needed to be smaller and shallow bottomed to traverse some of the shallow portions of the swamp and boat roads.  Cypress After spending most of our time in marshes by the coast, it was nice to see some swamp that actually looked like the swamp I imagined. The scary trees with Spanish moss hanging down, the still water and algae growing, everything was very serene. Our guide had an awesome accent and a fun sense of humor. He was a pro at navigating through...

Pelican while we were waiting for the ferry The barge I wanted to see the rest of the Creole Nature Trail. My plan was to drive an out and back route from Lake Charles. Austin thought it would be very fun to go on the ferry across the river in Cameron. So we drove south from our hotel in Sulphur and followed the trail around to Cameron- doing a loop instead of out and back. We reached a point where there was just a big river, with no way to get across it. Enter the giant ferry boat. It was in the middle of the river when we drove up, so we watched the wildlife and waited for it to get across. We were second in line, and eventually drove onto the boat. I was curious as to how this all worked, but it was really simple- there was a ramp from shore to the boat. Landon was not quite sure what was going on until we pulled away from the shore. Then he got excited. Nobody else got out of their cars once the ferry was on the water, so we just sat back and relaxed in the car and ate l...