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Alligator Bayou and enrich us with their warmth, humor and knowledge. Visit this page often. We'll keep you up to date with the latest bayou news! If you'd like to share something newsworthy, e-mail us at info@alligatorbayou.com. |
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Since: The Beginning
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See Gators in a natural habitat of lakes and vegetation. |
Check out our 2,800 gallon concrete pool designed for our five Alligator Snapping Turtles. Get a sneak preview as the habitat is still under construction. |
 We have just opened two luxurious Cajun cottages on or near Alligator Bayou. The Grenouille (Frog) and the Cocodrie (Alligator) offer two- and three-bedroom accommodations for overnight or longer stays.Each cottage is designed to give guests the quiet seclusion of the bayou wilderness and is fully appointed with antique and contemporary furnishings. All linens, utensils, pots/pans are furnished, along with washer/dryer, tub/shower, microwave, stove/oven, television, stereo, BBQ pits and inviting porch furniture.
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Just after Thanksgiving 1999, 43 French beauty queens visited Alligator Bayou as part of a scenic tour prompted by the state's tricentennial and coordinated by the Louisiana Office of Film &
Video and the Louisiana Office of Tourism. Here, French TV crews filmed a few of the contestants for sequences that aired in Paris on Dec. 11 during the Miss France Beauty Pageant 2000.
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Honors science students from Baton Rouge's St. Joseph's Academy have been "digging" the swamp at Alligator Bayou, and we sure do appreciate their conservation efforts. On March 11, 2000, a boatload of shovel-wielding young ladies from this all-girl's school cruised out to the levee overlooking Cypress Flats and dug holes to plant nearly 50 cypress seedlings donated by Gulf Coast Plantsmen and the Louisiana Department of Forestry. The same day, as part of an ongoing project, some of the students took water samples at six sites in the Spanish Lake Basin. |
The Spanish Lake Basin Mastodon bones? A day in the life of a Native American living in a 3,500-year-old village built across from Alligator Bayou? Kids tracking migratory birds along north-south flyways in the Western Hemisphere? Ecosystems linked across a 4,700-square-mile estuary? It's On The Way If you want to learn more about Alligator Bayou, basin ecology and cultural history, hang on just a little longer. We're about to publish a general interest book that will be available in the Duck's Nest Shoppe and by way of the Internet. It will feature a fascinating, in-depth history (never told before), a chapter by Kermit Braud on Cajun folkways, tales of swamp creatures, Creole recipes and much more! |
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A Special Day 
We meet wonderful people and make lasting friendships every day at Alligator Bayou, but the morning tour of March 28, 2000, is indelibly imprinted in the memories of everyone aboard the Alligator Queen. On that day, nine Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in a mountainous region of India graced us with their presence and exulted in the beauty of the swamp. |
you might enjoy seeing them. |
| The Gator Gazette |