New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival turns 50 this year, and we’re excited to celebrate the occasion alongside everyone in town! Yesterday, we hosted a VIP Jazz Fest EcoTour with a very special group of amazing women. Going Beyond the Floodwalls has never been so fun and inspiring! We had a blast on the excursion,Read More
Our team at The Great Delta Tours partnered with Peter Martinet, Ph.D, at a Xavier University and Dinah Magarden, Ph.D, at UNO’s Coastal Education and Research Facility (CERF) in Bayou Sauvage Wildlife Refuge to provide a fun and enlightening group excursion for their students. Our goal was to expand the walls of students’ ecology classRead More
It was a beautiful Sunday down here in South Louisiana… a perfect opportunity to get out and explore on a tour! (Well, any day is perfect, really.) We had the chance to welcome a wonderful group from Tampa, Florida, Portland, Oregon, and Piqua, Ohio down into the delta. We had so much fun with theRead More
It’s a beautiful time of year to visit the Great Mississippi River Delta, and we’ve been having a blast doing it! Getting out, seeing the sights around the bayou, and catching view of the culture and wildlife around here is an experience for the memory books. It’s also a joy to meet our guests fromRead More
Recently, we were delighted to host Virginia Miller and her guests for a special VIP birthday adventure down in the Mississippi River Delta. Lots of green anoles were sighted – so you can tell that Spring is definitely in the air. There were tons of Louisiana eco cultural sites to see and we had aRead More
The Great Delta Tours has officially launched our 2019 pre-cruise tours for the American Queen Steamboat Company! We’ll be providing eco excursions for their boat trips docking in New Orleans, and look forward to many more trips like our recent inaugural venture out. On our tour last week, guests were treated to a special dish of anRead More
Recently, our team at Great Delta Tours had the chance to partner with BBC Destination Management Company to host a customized ecotour for the American Sheep Industry (ASI) National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of course we jumped at the opportunity! During the tour, we had a special chance to speak with local oyster fishermanRead More
Recently, we were honored to have leaders of PIANO (Professional Innkeepers of America, New Orleans Chapter) on our Great Delta Tour. It was an honor to go beyond the flood walls with such a fantastic group! Local fisherman, Don Robin of Robin Seafood, visited with members in Ycloskey, LA, America’s oyster capital. While he wasRead More
In our previous blog, The Great Delta Tours gave you a look at some of the most interesting wildlife in and around the Great Mississippi River Delta Ecosystem. We’ll cover a few more amazing wildlife species here! Bottlenose Dolphins Dolphins are a welcome and familiar sight on the outer edges of the Great Mississippi RiverRead More
The Great Mississippi River Delta is brimming with incredible wildlife. In this blog, the ecotourism team at The Great Delta Tours will show you some of the greatest wildlife the Delta has to offer! Louisiana Black Bears Nearly identical to black bears of the Rocky Mountains, the Louisiana Black Bear calls the Mississippi River ValleyRead More
