May 14, 2009 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: Atchafalaya Swamp, Cajun Jack's Swamp Tours, Patterson, Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana Cajun Jack's Swamp Tours is located at 112 Main Street in Patterson, Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana   Vi skulle afsted på sumptur med Cajun Jack i dag, og vi stillede an i formiddags ved hans hjem. Herfra tager han turister med i flodbåd ned ad bayouen. We were going on a swamp tour with Cajun Jack today, and showed up this morning at his house. From here he takes tourists down the bayou in a river boat.           En mikroskopisk April ta'r en gyngetur i Jack's have ~ A microscopic April relaxing in the swing in Jack's garden     På vej gennem Berwick Sluse ~ Going through Berwick Lock     Rejebåde ~ Shrimp boats

Atchafalaya-sumpen er den største sump i USA, 240 kilometer lang og over 30 kilometer bred. The Atchafalaya Swamp is the largest swamp in the U.S., about 150 miles long and about 20 miles wide.     Andemad ~ Duckweed     Alligator     Bayouerne er sidefloder, som dannes, når floden går over sine breder og forgrener sig i nye retninger. The bayous are branches to the river that are formed when the river floods and diverts in new directions.     Langt inde i bayouen bor der stadig cajuns (mennesker, der er nedstammet fra acadienne-folket), men det er kun den ældre generation, der er tilbage i dag, hvor mindre end hundrede mennesker lever inde i sumpen. De fleste af dem har aldrig gået i skole, og taler bedre cajun-fransk end de taler engelsk. De lever stort set af fiskeri. Der er ingen indlagt vand eller elektricitet her, beboerne samler regnvand og bruger generatorer. Far inside the bayou there is still a population of Cajun (descended from Acadians) people, but only the older generation remains, and there are less than a hundred residents left. Most of them have never gone to school, and they speak better Cajun-French than they speak English. They support themselves by fishing. There is no running water or electric lines here, the residents collect rain water and use generators.

Blåhejre ~ Blue Heron     Langt de fleste træer i bayouen er cypresser. The majority of the trees in the bayou are cypress trees.

Den brune pelsklump man lige kan ane i midten af det hele er en sumpbæver. That brown chunk of fur you can barely make out in the middle is a nutria.         Guldsmed. Vi går meget ind for guldsmede. De spiser myg. Dragonfly. We are all for dragonflies. They eat mosquitos.     13.000 år gammelt træ ~ 13,000-year-old tree

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