The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp, is the largest swamp in the United States. Located in south central Louisiana, it is a combination of wetlands and river delta area where the Atchalafaya River and the Gulf of Mexico converge.
We visited on the day we arrived in Lafayette from New Orleans (you can see a selection of photographs if you click on the the picture beneath the heading "Atchafalaya Basin" on the right). We saw Ospreys, Bald Eagles, Ibis, Blue Heron, Alligator, Coypu and Beaver and in dryer times, it is wet season with water levels 12 feet higher than in Summer, we might also have seen Brown Bear and Cougar and, our guide told us, "gazillions of mosquitoes, soooo many it would make you cry".
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