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July 20, 2015

Champagne’s Swamp Tours, Road Trip Day 4.

 

 

We decided that our swamp tour would be the last thing on our scheduled trip through South Louisiana and after looking a brochures and looking at Yelp and TripAdvisor, we settled on Champagne’s Swamp Tours in Breaux Bridge. Breaux Bridge is a quick twenty-minute drive from Lafayette. My mom wasn’t into the airboat type tours, so this one, using flat bottom boats was perfect.  Champagne’s has been name a TripAdvisor 2015 Award of Excellence winner. After taking the tour, I can see why. The people there are super friendly and the guides are wonderful.  This is the only swamp tour in Breaux Bridge that has its own bathroom facilities and the ability to purchase water and cold drinks.  The $20.00 per person ticket price was well worth it. I was so impressed that I wrote a TripAdvisor and Yelp review, and I never do that.  We arrived for our 10am tour and was glad to see that it was overcast as summer in Louisiana can be a HOT!  Our tour was on Lake St. Martin and it was so peaceful and beautiful.  Our guide, Andy, was a great storyteller and was very knowledgable about the area and the lake. I highly recommend this and will go back.

2015-07-19_0004Our transportation for the tour.

 

2015-07-19_0005Kayakers headed out for the day. Kayaks can also be rented. I love to kayak and would do this in the fall.

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2015-07-19_0025 An anhinga drying his wings.

2015-07-19_0024 Lily pads and cypress trees.

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2015-07-19_0014Cypress trees under a cloudy sky

2015-07-19_0010Andy telling us about the lotus flowers.

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2015-07-19_0013 The seeds in the pod are edible.

2015-07-19_0012 Field of lotus flowers.

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After our tour, we drove up to Arnaudville and had lunch at The Little Big Cup and then headed on towards Grand Coteau on our way to I-49.  This little town is home to a convent and a boarding school. The town has done a great job making it an antique lovers destination with cute shops and cafes. We only explored a tiny bit of the town, but it is one place that I’d like to go back and spend more than the hour that we did this trip.

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After our quick stop in Grand Coteau, we headed back to  Dry Prong. We were tired, and too full from all the good food that we had eaten, but we had such a wonderful time and I’m so glad that we did this.  I can’t wait for us to do it again.  Sunday was my dad’s birthday and Father’s Day, so that was so nice to be able to be there to celebrate. I had Monday to myself, so I cooked dinner for them, packed and flew back to Florida on Tuesday.  It was the longest time that I had spent at home in years.  I plan on going back for a few days in the fall and then for at least a week next summer.

 

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