Alligator Bayou Tours: Your Louisiana Wilderness Adventure

Cruise with us into the wild beauty of the Spanish Lake Basin, a primitive wilderness of swamps, bayous and lakes teeming with alligators, birds, cultural history and the Cajun joie de vivre for which Louisiana is famous.

Located just 15 minutes from Baton Rouge, Alligator Bayou invites you to laugh, learn and let the good times roll during our fun, entertaining eco-swamp tour or your corporate or private event on our bayou-side pavilion.

COLORS OF THE SWAMP

Sunset On The Flats

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.


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

Nature's Paintings Click On Images For Full Pictures

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.
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"Clothilde" sunning on a log. In 1997, the
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries released
an additional 24 baby gators into the swamp.

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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.

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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.

Swamp Critters Click On Images For Full Pictures

Swamp Tours

Alligator Eco-habitat