It is about a 30k drive from NOLA to the Louisiana Swamp Tour Company but an easy drive. We selected the small airboat ( max 6 passengers) rather than the bigger one up to 15 people, glad we did as it seems more personal with lees people. Four out of the six passengers were Australian which was kinda funny as the Americans were in the minority. I cannot recommend this tour highly enough, it was $95 per person and worth every cent. Our guide/driver was Marty and he was great, having spent his life on the swamps/bayous. The videos don't do it justice, the airboats are powered by V8 engines that sit just behind the the driver. They are very loud and get up to 40mph with passengers. They more slide across the water rather than in the water like a conventional boat. It is a funny feeling at the start but lots of fun. His brief to us was "he is a tour guide not an expert, if he doesn't know the answer he will lie, and most probably will lie anyhow". I was thinking of NT croc tours and this is totally different. Within 10 minutes of taking off we came across alligators, they seemed to be everywhere. I couldn't understand when he said alligators were like dogs but I soon found out. He pulled up in a small area where there were 4 or 5 alligators, only up to 4 or 5 feet, as soon as he pulled up they headed straight to our boat. He started feeding them marshmallows and patting them. One of the tourist asked why marshmallows and his response was " they are marsh creatures so you should feed them marshmallows". He then got serious and explained their stomachs have very strong acids and destroy marshmallows but they love them. We all got to pat an alligator in the water. We moved on to the swamplands where the boat was skimming over what seemed like land but was floating islands made up of mud and decaying plant life with a very strong smell of methane gas. He then took us to a Cyprus forest (clump of Cyprus trees). These look fantastic with the weird stuff (kinda spooky) dangling from them. Apparently originally these trees were 25ft around the base and 100ft high but have been mostly felled as the timber is very hard and resistant to termites. Logging is now banned from the swamplands and owners can only use the Cyprus if it falls naturally. While chatting Marty pulls a 3 month old alligator from under his seat and hands him around, cute little critter and we all got to hold him. Time was up and we headed back to the shore. We were blessed by the weather gods, blue skies and hot weather for our swamp tour. It was 27 or 28c, summer in that swamp area would be stifling and unbearable. Had such a great time on the swamp tour I would recommend it to anyone visiting NOLA. Dropped the car back to the Hotel and walked about 2km towards the City to have lunch at The Blind Pelican. Lunch was great and I had my first Po Boy which is a quite famous Louisiana submarine type sandwich. We caught the streetcar back to the room and had a rest before heading to the French Quarter for dinner. 6pm we grabbed the streetcar to the City and again wandered down Bourbon St. For some reason it was less feral and had a decent atmosphere. You could however see that it would not take much to go feral again. We walked all the way down to Frenchmen's Street. This is a world away from Bourbon St, everyone seemed to just want to listen to good jazz and have a good feed. We had a few drinks, listened to some good jazz then wandered slowly back down the road looking for a feed. Ended up at the brewery house we were at on the first day. I tried the alligator and pork Po boy, it was ok, nothing to rave about. Tomorrow off on the way to Nashville