Take to the bayou and explore Louisiana in a traditional wooden boat
Cruise into Louisiana's past on a boat tour of Bayou Lafourche with a National Park Service ranger. Locally known as "the longest street in the world" in honor of the towns and homes along its banks, Bayou Lafourche once served as a major thoroughfare in watery south Louisiana.
Boat tours are offered March 3 through May 26. Cruises cast off from the dock behind the Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center, 314 St. Mary Street in Thibodaux. Travel to
- historic Madewood Plantation on Fridays and Saturdays 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Tickets cost $28.25 plus tax and include lunch in the formal dining room and a guided tour of house and grounds.
- the E.D. White plantation home, birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglas White, on Wednesdays 10:00 a.m.-noon. Tickets $5.
Reservations are required; call the center at 985-448-1375. Tours are limited to 20 people (minimum of eight). Tour participants should dress for a day in the sun. Group boat tours are available by reservation.