2/20/15 - On 2/19, we drove about 65 miles southeast to a town named Slidell, La and took a two hour swamp cruise.  It was very interesting.  I was dressed as if in the north and most of the time it was OK until he decided to drive the flat hull single boat for the swamp really fast!!  The guy was a local and very informative.  We went under a bridge that gets a paint job about every 7 years and if a boat is going down the Pearl River, they need to give the bridge attendant 4 hours notice to raise the bridge since he has several other bridges he is responsibility for.  Pictures attached from the cruise:

                                               The swamp on Bayou

                                                       The Old Bridge