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Experience the unspoilt beauty of Louisiana's Backwaters

Experience true Cajun life on the bayou, just 15 minutes from downtown New Orleans.

With Cajun Critters, you'll enter into the backwaters of Louisiana and float past the places where pirates and Indians once roamed.

Discover the beauty of cypress trees draped with Spanish moss...graceful water lilies and wildflowers. Cruise serenely through bayous and swamps carpeted by Duckbill grass...

Wildlife in abundance...
Migrating songbirds, Egrets, Ibexes, Great Blue Herons, Pelicans... perhaps you'll even see a Bald Eagle or the occasional Macaw blown off course from a passing hurricane.

Peer far enough ahead and you'll notice an Otter or Mink swimming to the opposite bank. Rabbits, Deer, Armadillos, and Ducks all call this mystical wilderness their home.

Louisiana sunrise

Dangling your feet from the boat is not recommended...

Alligator on the bank

(Click on the image above to see the gator full size.)

Look! There, lying on the bank in the sunshine! A hungry but patient alligator waits, anticipating his next meal. His cold, never-ending stare focuses on a nearby unsuspecting nutria.

A snapping turtle, watching knowingly from a nearby cypress knee, plunges beneath the surface of the dark, tannin-painted water as we pass.