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Leave camp about 8.30 and with Stine's continuous array of cheesey music from her I-pod we soon arrive 3 hrs later at a swamp. We had lunch and began our tour of the swamp on boat. Our guide's name is Captain Jack, set of a little way and he tries putting the engine in full throttle but boat goes nowhere, we think its part of the tour and makes us believe we stuck out in the swamp with the alligators but soon becomes apparent that this isn't the case, so we coast back to dock and change boats. Start all over again and takes us to where we had the problem, he started talking about crayfish in the swamp and then we saw an object moving in the water towards the boat and it turned out to be the alpha male alligator in the area, Cptain Jack estimted about 15-16ft long, took a few snaps on my camera - punt intended, sorry it had to be done:-). Of all the food that Captain Jack could of used he inticed the alligator to come nearer by using marshmellows, who came up with that idea!!!!!!!!!! The tour lasted about 2hrs and pointing out all the animals in the smamp, turtles, alligators, hunny bees, different varieties of fish he certainly knew his stuff!!! The tour ended and we had a 45min drive to New Orleans, still not fully recovered from hurricane Katrina - boarded up and abandended buildings everywhere!!!! We reach the appartment get ready and go out for a walk before heading to a restaurant called Cambo's which served local New Orlean food of fish plates and cocktails. After food we all went to a karaoke bar called meow cats, we listened to other "acts" sing their song & then it was our turn "summer loving" from Grease, The girls (Alex, Jess, Stine & Col) on one side and of the stage and the lads (Me, Jack Nigel & Taft) stood on the other side. We stayed at that bar all night with Alex and Col singing "This love". Col, Jack & Taft sung "summer of 69", Taft singing "I would walk 500 miles" & Nigel singing with a friend he knew from Australia. We left pub around 2ish got back to the hotel & sat in the lounge area talking with everyone finally ending up going bed just gone 4am!!!
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