Had breakfast at a Wafflehouse. Mmmm, it was good! But I did eat too much!
We stopped at Henderson and went on a swamp tour from McGees Landing. There was a large black and white picture of Jamie Oliver on the wall with a gator over his shoulders and a framed photo of him with the waitress.
We had to wait a bit before the tour, so we had a drink. You can just see a bit of the boat tied up to the dock on the right.
The levee we were on is a flood catchment area for the Mississippi River, covering an area of about a million acres. From the marks on the trees you could see where the water had been up to 15 feet (4 - 5 meters) above the current level, that's a heap of water and this happens quite regularly.
In the levee north of I-10 there is a reserve where we went into a little cove and the Tom the cruise Captain, I'm pretty sure he was was Troy's father the guy off swamp people, banged on the side of the boat and called out "come on peewee" (apparent Troy lives about 20 miles from where we were). Tom turned the engines off and we just sat there and with in 5 minutes we were surrounded by about five alligators, pretty cool, one of the local tourists call out out "shoot em Troy" it was quite a laugh.
Here we are on the boat, when we turned up at the dock there was only us then another couple turned up, they were from the Netherlands (they didn't know Roger though) and a family of local tourists. In this photo you can see we are in the middle of the I-10, pretty impressive, built in the late 60's early 70's and was over 20 miles long and this was one of many similar roadways in this area.
After the cruise we had some local fish from the lake and Al had some more Jack Honey on the rocks and then we took off for Houston with the top down, temperature got to 100. Ended up at the Airport Suites Inn for the night, a very interesting place.
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