My ecology class went on a 'field trip' last week to the Barataria Preserve of Jean Lafitte National Historic Park. The Preserve is southwest of New Orleans down in bayou country. The Barataria is an area where bayous, marshes, swamps, and forests all come together. We saw a couple of alligators, snakes, and a ton of huge banana spiders (check out the picture, pretty insane). The spiders are about the size of a hand, no joke, and just hang out in their webs all over the place in the wetlands. It was a pretty neat place, a perfect example of what you think of when you think of South Louisiana. Much different from anything you would ever see in the mountains of TN.
Barataria Preserve
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