LAUNCH DAY

Ok so we didnt have a crew there to really take any pictures. it was me and my neighbor rusty and we really werent thinking about pictures. the boat pulled well on the trailer the whole way. we had spare tires and every thing we needed to make that trip successful. we launched the houseboat and then launched my boat to pull it. after finding a place to park, the journey continued and of that part i do have pictures.

AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN feast your eyes on "THE BUNGALEAUX"

the bayou in the background is called Chen Blanc. it connects to blind river and blind river connects to lake maurepas. we pulled the bungaleaux approx. 7 miles to its final destination. that trip took us a little over an hour. could have towed it faster but there a lot of turns in the bayous that lead out to the main river. its hard to show the progress because the scenery all looks the same out there.

on the biger river here.

lake maurepas in the distance here. coming around the bend to its final destination.

here she sits in the 2nd to last resting place. this is temporary for the weekend. we'll come back in a couple weeks and pull it more on land with no lean to it. kinda like on its own dry dock in the swamp.

i'll be parking my boat behind it for now and using it as a walkway into the bungaleaux. we spent the night on it and it was really comfortable. it was 32 degrees outside and the little elec heater we brought was way more than needed. im sure when its warmer the A/C installed will cool the hell out of it...haha

overall it is what it is. its a floatable camper with a bed and a little bit of move around space. more or less a shelter to get out of the heat, rain, cold and just to get away from it all.  the location is water access only. you can not drive to it in a car. its rougly 7-10 miles from the nearest landing and that makes it some what secluded and out of the way hide out with little boat traffic on the bayou its docked on.

pulling up to the bungaleaux returning from a fishing trip that afternoon.

eventually it will have its own walkway with a spot to dock my boat . but here it is with a good view of the camp that we are going to be resurrecting from the dead.

the swamp gods must approve of the bungaleaux. just one night in the swamp and its allready has a deccent ammount of moss growing on it.