Beware of the gator

And the swamp tour! How could I forget the swamp tour... We were herded into a boat and driven round one of Louisiana's most famous swamps. We even saw a gator! It was around 3ft long, and generally tiny, and can be seen in this photo, next to an emormous rat (a Nutria, apparently). There was a tree there, I forget what sort, but their roots grow out of the water again, and look like stalagmites, and they hollow out and generally look spooky. Apparently this particular tree was the one that they dumped Tom Cruise's body by, in Interview with the Vampire, and also an old trading post for Moonshine (so called because the night was when they moved it around).

Then they gave me a turkey neck to eat. It looked distinctly like a proverbial appendage on a horse, but considering the alternative was hot dogs, I went with the meat that looked like horse cock but wasn't, rather than the opposite.