Boat Tour of the Wetlands

Port Sulphur, Louisiana

6 hours

1 - 6 People

Details

Venture to areas only accessible by boat and see the beauty of Louisiana's costal landscape. Learn about the rapid land loss occurring in the region and explain why south Louisiana is ground zero for global warming.

You will see all sides of our story, from tragic to beautiful to hopeful. You will ride through the “Texaco canals” to witness devastation left when an oil company finished extracting oil and moved on; cruise with schools of dolphins behind barrier islands hosting dense populations of nesting pelicans and shore birds; visit one the first projects that used sediment from the near-by river to restore an eroding marsh; see first-hand the impact levees have on wetlands.

Itinerary

Visitors travel down canals and bayous through marshland to the rapidly eroding Barataria Bay and south to the waters around Grand Isle and Grand Terre Island. Famous in the early 1800s as the stomping ground of the pirate Jean Lafitte and his band of privateers. The area remains rich with wildlife and one of the nation’s most productive fisheries. it was here that photographers shot many of the most dramatic and tragic photos of oil-soaked wildlife during the 2010 BP oil spill.