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Related: About this forumSwamp Shack with Guard Bird
Texas/Louisiana Boundary Waters - November 2023
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Swamp Shack with Guard Bird (Original Post)
Bo Zarts
Nov 2023
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CaliforniaPeggy
(152,650 posts)1. Nobody gets past the guard bird! Great shot, my dear Bo. ♥ nt
Bo Zarts
(25,765 posts)3. That's a junkyard guard bird!
Baddest bird in the whole damn town!
blm
(113,892 posts)2. Looks like a movie set.
Great photo.
Bo Zarts
(25,765 posts)4. The back-story of this place is Faulkner-esque.
This swamp shack was a speakeasy at one point. Boys would charge men a nickle to row them across the bayou to drink liquor, or so the story goes. If the kids were smart, they would charge the drunks a lot more to row them back across to the mainland.