The swamp comes alive at the end of each day as the color
pallette of the sky embraces every color known to man and the
sounds of wildlife sing in harmony.

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Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

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VISITORS TO THE SWAMP Louisiana pelicans and other migratory birds spend several weeks each year in the basin, a stop along the Mississippi River Flyway. "Clothilde" sunning on a log. In 1997, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries released an additional 24 baby gators into the swamp. The small Green Heron, like its wide-winged relative, the Great Blue Heron, is a cunning fisherman and one of 250 species of birds in the Spanish Lake Basin. This giant bald cypress tree, about 750 years old, was saved in 1993 when Frank Bonifay, shown here, and Jim Ragland preserved 901 acres of the basin in a national non-profit organization. These giants are among the last of Louisiana's old growth cypress trees.

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