Lafitte Harbor Marina RV Park

CAMPGROUND SPOTLIGHT

Do you enjoy fishing or cruising the swamps and marshes looking for unusual wildlife and beautiful scenery? Then the Lafitte Harbor Marina RV Park is for you. This compact, but comfortable, campground is at the end of the road in the fishing village of Jean Lafitte in southeastern Louisiana, south of New Orleans.

The saltwater fishing here is perhaps the best in the United States. Shrimp boats ply these waters from mid-May until late November. Various wading birds, ducks and songbirds live here much of the year. Alligators are plentiful. The sunsets and sunrises are as spectacular as anywhere. They are most beautiful in the summer when there are high cumulonimbus clouds in the morning and evening sky.

To the south lies the Barataria-Terre-- bonne Estuary-which contains 34 percent of Louisiana's marshes. There are fishing charters, swamp tours, marsh tours, unusual family cemeteries (the Lafitte cemetery is built on an ancient Indian mound), at least one gift shop and several small but excellent restaurants. The village of Jean Lafitte is said to have been home to Jean Lafitte, the pirate.

This relatively new RV park has 16 full-hookup sites, three gravel and 13 concrete. There are laundry and shower facilities and a 40x60-foot pavilion. The sites border the marina channel and Bayou Barataria, and there are four cabins and two bunkhouse trailers for rent.

Ya'll come and enjoy southern Louisiana. It's famous for unequalled hospitality.

Lafitte Harbor Marina RV Park, P.O. Box 70, Lafitte, Louisiana 70067, (504) 689-- 2013; www.bayaufuel.com.

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