--Because everyone knows that Zombies can not swim, and IRS agents hate to get wet.

Ranger doesn't drink alcohol...

CB has a good memory.

When you are as dumb as I am, you need all the brain cells you have.

Throw I few decoys from the door step.
I like it.

pintaildrake09

This one is even better, and it has a screened in porch for you to drink your beer, and tie your boat up to.


Life is good when you can anchor the trot line to the corner of the house

All joking aside, I have put a bit of thought into the possibility of a complete economic shut down, or a disaster on a national level.

If that ever happens, the welfare sucking heathen will start running about like ravenous wolves, stealing, killing, raping... Lots of other folks that are not prepared for such an event will start getting hungry real quick.

I have come to the conclusion that living close to a swamp, and having a shack back in the swamp is the best way to go. With a small pirogue, trot lines, bush hooks, a .22 rifle, cast net, a few rods and reels, some bags of rice, oil, salt, coffee, kerosene lamps, and a small wood stove, I could live for a long time with little to nothing. I could catch enough fish, frogs, craw fish, and shoot small game to feed me for a good while. I might even have to keep a few beers on hand in the event that pintaildrake09 stops over for a visit.

pintaildrake09

I believe the imigration bill to be foolish.

It rewards law breakers, once they become citizens they will vote democrat, and why let folks come here to work when we are already paying 47 million lazy folks not to work?

Your cabin is looking good.

That is awesome. They are all covering each others butts. When you have the fbi director that doesn't know who is heading up the investigation and his answers are we'll get back to you on that or cant commet on on goin investigation, then somethin is up.
You might be goin to your camp pretty soon. This country is in a whirl wind of disaster

Yes. IRS targets conservative groups. PRISM tracks everyone's every data transaction everywhere. 47% of the populous lives off the other 53%. Voting is irrelevant. Both parties are corrupt to the core. The fed prints trillions out of thin air. Spending is increased every year.

This is the point of the party, right before the cops show up.

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I actually own this one.......it's only three bedroom........but we can sleep some in the living room

Pintail, you on North Pass?

This one is portable.

Cousin owns All Metal in Pumpkin Center........look him up when you are putting a top on that camp

My slice of Heaven

Quackconsumer

Does not look like the water can get much higher on you. Was that pick taken after a storm?

Good looking place.

My wife wants a house in Seaside, Fla. I want nothing to do with that. I already have my slice of heaven right on the Atchafalaya River.

It would seem to me that tongue and groove walls may be a better option than sheetrock in an area prone to flood.

These may be dumb questions, but I will ask anyway.

When you all build these houses out on the swamp, do you actually own the ground underneath?

I used to do some construction work on Lake Harding (one of the impoundments on the Chattahoochee river). The houses and boat hoses were owned, but the land was on a hundred year lease. I think Georgia power owned the land.

Where you all are at is different, because you are not on a manmade water way or impoundment.

When you all get floods, is it more as a result of rain from up north flowing south down the Mississippi and other rivers, or is it due to hurricanes pushing water inland?

Years ago I used to coon hunt the north edge of the Okefenokee Swamp up around Waycross, Georgia. It would seem to be a prime area for mud boats and such, but I have not noticed anyone on MMT posting anything about hunting/fishing out of mud boats in that area. Same goes for the swamps around the Savanna, Georgia area..

It varies. Sometimes it is owned. Ours is on leased land from the state of louisiana. Flooding is caused by different issues depending on location. Coastal areas flood from storm surge, inland areas from heavy rainfalls. Then there is the atchafalaya swamp that floods from northern waters draining down.

The Land on which my camp sits is owned by St. Martin Land Co. ....essentially carpetbaggers from the North who soaked up land from the depressed south during reconstruction when no one here in the south could afford to pay property taxes or feed themselves. The swamp land was raped for its ancient cypress wood. Then oil was discovered and these absentee owners from Chicago became filthy rich. Although they try to present a good public image, they are the devil when it comes to concessions regarding land. They refuse to sell. If you want to lease a campsite from them you must declare you are not a member of any environmental group either local or national. We have two organizations that but heads with them all the time: Crawfishermen's Organization and Basin Keepers. Camp leases are year to year. I hate St. Martin Land Co as much as I hated my personal trainer this morning at 7 am for busting my ass with squats. But I have lost 20 lbs.

Regarding flooding, in the great flood of 2011 my camp was 1 foot away from getting water in it at 29 feet above sea water, all because of snow melt. I actually saw ice once on the river years ago. Because the land in Louisiana is so flat, even a minor rise in rivers levels will affect a large area. The effect of rising water was much more destructive and widespread before the new levees were built in after 1927, the greatest flood of all time in terms of its affect on population and area.

Modern day floods do not compare, however, to ancient ones. If you look at the bottom of a sandy clear stream you will see undulations of the sand from the effects of water rushing over it. Magnify that times a million and that is what you will see the remnants of along the Teche Ridge between Lafayette and Opelousas on the East side of I-49. Those undulations were formed when the Mississippi once channeled through the area in a Prehistoric flood of biblical proportions. The estimates are that it was like a Stunami even larger than what was recently seen in Asia a few years ago. The velocity of the current formed those undulations. What you see now is worn down by erosion but they were massive at one time.

We own.....8 acres.......but that was before the land owner went bust and gave it all to the state in some trust.........creating the Maurepas WMA....at least that is how I heard it

I know this is the politics forum, but this thread morphed into an education on swamp cabins, and flooding in LA.

I learned much more than I expected. I had no idea that the posts for said cabins go 20 feet into the ground, and I did not realize the history of the flooding (it spurred me to do some google study).

Throughout my military career I have always chose to live off post (except for my enlisted years). Being I hunt, fish, trap… I generally live as far in the county, and as far away from military posts as possible. Generally I make more friends with local civilians that also hunt and fish, than with fellow military folks. It is always interesting learning the history, people, and how the terrain shapes the way of life in a specific area.

I have enjoyed the majority of the places that I have lived, but I regret that I was never stationed in La. I am intrigued by the lifestyle, the food, the music, and the hunting and fishing, and the bayou. Throughout my military career, some of the best folks I have become friends with are from La. SFC Damien Stelly (also a pro cage fighter) is from La, and he is one of the best submission grapplers I have ever trained with. SSG Brandon Green (competitive rifle shooter with AMU) is one of the best long range rifle shooters I have ever learned from, and he is a La boy. Two of my favorite cadets I instructed at West Point still keep in contact with me, and they were from La.

Who knows, in the next couple years when I retire from the Army, I may just have to move in that direction.


Thanks for the info from those that posted.

Ranger......the history behind our place is unique........My great Uncle befriended the original owner and hung out there as a 'men only" camp. No lady folks. I can remember 40+ years ago opening Falstaff tor the men while the let us hang out with them.

My great Uncle was a wildlife agent for the area and he had stories that were just spectacular.
Like once from our camp, he busted a group hanging gill nets in tress for wood ducks. He also caught a guy picking "frozen Robins" of the ground after a unexpected freeze.

It later became our family destination for every summer. We had little means back then and we would go there for vacation staying two weeks at at time. The men would drive out by boat in the mornings and go to work, come back in the evenings.

It is where I learned to cook, Kissed my first crush and brought my kids when I was going through a horrible divorce.

Been in the family over 50 years now.

Six cousins, my brother and I, another two brothers, and two other cousins formed a corporation and bought if back from a man that the old men had sold it too for six years or so.........best move I ever made.

we have had a wedding back there, a funeral service complete with ashes dumped by a cypress tree and at least one CEO of a multi billion dollar company come hang out with us a few times.

It is truly a mind clearing place

Simplepeddler


If you all aint to good to have an old Army Ranger down, I would like to come see it one day.

What do you all do for electricity (or do you just do without)? Are you able to get on the grid, or do you run a generator?

Once one floods, do you have to gut the the thing, or do you stay away from using sheetrock and insulation (stuff that will get moldy)?

Do you have much problems with folks stealing when you aint around?

Does anyone ever build a floating cabin on pontoons?

I am sure I will think up a slew of other dumb questions by morning.

IMG_1090.PNGI would love to have you man! It is what we do......LOL
we are on the grid and built high enough where we have never flooded. Although close calls are the norm.......o
anything not bolted down can, will and does float off.

there are no houseboats on the river, not sure why, but something about and old law from when the harvested cypress of the land.

Nothing has been stolen in the last 13 years or so, but before the camp was rebuilt, in the years the old men were in fighting about what to do with it, yes several people helped themselves to things like hot water heaters, well tanks.........

My uncles put the first well down by hand back in 71ish..........we just had to have it re-drilled.
the sewer systems are approved now by the state, you can't just let it "all" drain........

we have sattelite to watch the races or the Tigers when they are playing.......
and we catch blue crabs on chicken necks right off the pier