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A Waterfowler's vacation spot in the rice belt of Louisiana's Gulf Coast, where ducks and geese fatten up each winter. This is a duck and goose hunting vacation setup on the Louisiana Gulf Coast located a few miles below Gueydan, the "Duck Capital of the World."

For more than a century, ducks and geese migrating from Canada and the central United States have poured into Southwest Louisiana to gorge themselves on surplus rice. This is the Louisiana Flyway. Under its skies lies a half a million acres of harvest spillings and naturally downed grain. Over it, migrating waterfowl have navigated the same air corridors for generations. Like Salmon of the skies, they return year after year to the same field, in the same family groupings, for the same waiting feast. How they manage this no one knows for sure. Maybe it's in their genes. Maybe they smell the feed on the air. Maybe it's as simple as following their leaders. Maybe they have goose GPS. Whatever it is, tradition rules. The Louisiana Flyway is a well-kept secret that has been producing birds for generations of hunters. Each year, over fifty million waterfowl arrive here in a hunger-frenzy, competing for landing space.

The first Cajuns to arrive here found freshwater marsh and wetland prairie to homestead. From the 1880's on, it was converted to flooded rice fields via a vast system of canals to drain, contain and control floodwaters. Today, deep-water wells supply the flow more efficiently (the cultivation of rice requires precision flooding and drainage). Of course, this is perfect for waterfowl, especially when there's extra grain to be had in the dabbling. We Cajuns are frugal people. It's not in our nature to waste, especially food. So it does us much good to know that ducks and geese eat what we spill. We know them to be true conservationists and natural ecologists: they convert energy into protein within their bodies, which is how we receive and give thanks for them as they fall from the skies around The Louisiana Flyway Lodge.

Lodge info: It has a large main lodge offering over 5,000 sq ft with spacious game room, commercial kitchen, and can hold 30 hunters or guests comfortably in its 5 bedrooms and 6 private baths.

Airstrip info: A 2,400 x 100 foot turf airstrip is included, adjacent to the main lodge.

Lat:  N 29degrees  55.349 minutes  Long:  W 92degrees  24.409 minutes