Surprise surprise, yep! You guessed it an early morning wake up call for us again. Checked out at around 7.45am and waited for Cajun encounters tour bus to pick us up! It was swamp time! The driver was cool, he narrated the whole way to the swamps. We passed through some of the devastation of what hurricane katrina did to New Orleans; even 9 years on and there is still a noticeable effect. 80% of New Orleans is under sea level with the 20% of it above sea level...

The moment we got on the bus we passed out asleep, we both had two travel tablets and yes they most certainly work!! We arrived early, 5.30am and it was still dark! The temporary location of the bus is in a parking lot with a Walgreens opposite so there was little there. There was a taxi that someone had called so we ran over and asked them to order another one for us; instead he decided to fit me and Ross and a man and woman into his taxi because we were going t...