Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Magnolia Plantation

Okay and on the last day we went to Magnolia Plantation, which was the first man-made tourist attraction in America (you know how I am a sucker for tourist attractions). Basically the guy who owned it lost all his money and had to make more so he started letting people tour his property. On the property there are slave cabins, the HUGE plantation house. All of these little ponds with bridges and stuff. They have a horticulture maze (a maze of bushes) and the Audobon Swamp (which is supposedly famous but I had never heard of it) It was really fun but ofcourse it was still really hot out.

This is the long bridge across one of the ponds.

The plantation house.

Slave cabin

Matt was really happy see that they ship UPS!




Okay all the green is swamp water, not grass! There were huge spiders everywhere. What you can't see is how close we are walking to the water, in places the bridge is actually floating on the water. Kinda freaky since there are gators in the swamp. Matt was freaking out so we rushed through the swamp!

3 comments:

Stacey Salmon said...

That swamp is so cool! Those bridges are realy pretty.
SS

Melinda Palmer said...

I honestly would have loved that! The picture of the bridge over the water is amazing!

Jeni said...

ok i am glad you clarified it as swamp and not grass... cause that is what I was trying to figure out... COO PIC OF THE GRASS LIS! But looks like fun - I love seeing plantations like that!