Avery Island [Jungle Gardens]…

May 7, 2008 | 5:36 PM

After we went to the Tabasco Factory, Liz, Nicole and I went to the Jungle Gardens on the other side of the island. While it wasn’t quite as hilarious as the tour guide reading her script poorly, it was very nice. We taunted small alligators and spied on turtles.

We encountered a decaying boat house with broken windows that fit in a scene from Scooby Doo. Which reminds me… do you ever notice that about half of the Scooby Doo episodes take place in the swamps? I think there’s a significant point in that. Anyway here’s the boat house.

Then we saw the Giant Buddha, which I didn’t get a good picture of. The Buddha looks over the garden, because no real garden is complete without a 20 foot tall Buddha. Remember that when you start your next garden project. After the Buddha we went to Bird City, which is definitely filled with birds. Herons or cranes of some sort. It smelled like the zoo. I mean, really bad too. I always thought the smell at the zoo was because of the elephants and giraffes and rhinoceroses. No. It’s the birds. I’ll leave you with a glimpse of the birds.