Submitted by: Ray and Lorre Dorris #7
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Day 23 in
Houma started out beautiful with a slight chill in the air with a few scattered
clouds with the occasional breaks with bright periods of bone warming
sunshine...
The evening
before ended with a breathtaking sunset, today also ended with another
beautiful Louisiana sunset but with a little punch from Mother Nature...
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We all
gathered in the parking lot for our ride share to Bob's Bayou Black Marina for
our Cajun Man's Swamp Cruise.
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Joe checking out those gator teeth...
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Nice to see
men in a line for a change....
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Our tour
guide, the owner, "Black" Guidry, who can be seen and heard on
severalTV stations, is a former Green Beret and State Trooper
We were awed
by the sighting of a pair of bald eagles, numerous alligators ranging from
small ones sunning on logs to what is probably one of the largest alligators
still in the wild.
We were
serenaded with tunes from his accordion and guitar while singing local Cajun
and familiar country tunes, making for another enjoyable morning of touring
through the swamps of Louisiana.
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We were
treated with a demonstration on how you use a limb line with a baited hook and
clothespin to hunt for alligator in the wild.
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Our next stop
was at Greenwood Gator Farm, here we learned all about the harvesting of gator
eggs, raising, processing of gators for their hide and meat for our
consumption. Ray chatting with the owners, the Greenwood's.
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Salt is used in the curing process.
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The sex of the alligator is determined by the temperature during incubation, incubation temperatures of 86 or lower produce a clutch of females; those at 93 or higher produce entirely males.
It was a very
educational tour as well as an entertaining and hands on experience.
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They do allow outsiders to live on the gator farm...
Me and Big Mike hanging out....
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Chris giving
one of the little fellows some love....
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Of course I
couldn't leave without my own gator...
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After seeing all these alligators, we were off to Big Al's Restaurant for some
tasty morsels of cooked alligator.
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I had my
favorite, charbroiled oysters, Ray had the gator sandwich.
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Our evening
ended with a big surprise from our fearless leaders, who have taken such
wonderful care of us on our meandering crawl across Cajun Country.
They treated
us to all the fixings of a true Cajun boil prepared by Rouse's Supermarket but
that's when Mother Nature decided to break up our little dinner party, well,
she didn't stop us from filling our bellies with crawfish, shrimp, red
potatoes, corn on the cob and chicken for a few.....
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Mad dash to
get everything put up...
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Tomorrow we
move on to New Orleans for the last stop on our trip....can't wait.
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