Kokomo Kayaks

09/28/2026

A drier cooler morning on the water trail.

07/11/2026

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Deep in the Honey Island Swamp, some folks say the mud remembers what the water hides. 🐾 In St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, along the bayous of the Pearl River, generations have traded stories of a tall, gray, hair-covered creature that leaves footprints where no known animal should.

The modern legend traces back to Harlan Ford, a retired air traffic controller turned wildlife photographer, who claimed a sighting in 1963 and, with a friend, reported strange four-toed tracks in 1974. After Ford died, a reel of film said to show the creature turned up among his things. But the roots go deeper than that. The area's Native peoples told of a creature they called the Letiche, and Cajun families spoke of the Loup Carou long before anyone reached for a camera.

Whether it is a real animal, a trick of the swamp light, or a story the bayou tells about itself, the Honey Island Swamp keeps its secret well. Some places are simply too tangled and too old to give up everything they hold. 🌾

If you grew up near swamp or deep woods, what was the creature the grown-ups warned you about?

06/23/2026

Interesting story

Deep in the Honey Island Swamp, where the Pearl River braids through the cypress near Slidell, the locals have a name for the thing in the mud. They call it the Letiche, or simply the Honey Island Swamp Monster. 🐊

The legend took firm hold in 1963, when a retired air traffic controller named Harlan Ford claimed he saw a tall gray creature with amber eyes vanish into the brush. Years later, plaster casts of strange three-toed, webbed tracks turned up among his belongings. Skeptics have their explanations. The trappers and fishermen who work that water are not so sure, and they will tell you the swamp has always kept a few secrets it does not intend to share.

What makes Honey Island so unnerving is that it is one of the least disturbed swamps in the country, tens of thousands of acres of wetland where a thing could move for a lifetime without ever being seen twice. Out there, the line between folklore and the unknown gets very thin. 🌙

There is a particular silence that falls over a swamp right before the frogs stop singing.

05/04/2026

We went to Honey Island swamp today. Water was 10 feet above normal, it was absolutely beautiful until we got off course. We were stuck in vines, down trees. It was an adventure. Not one. We intend on doing again.

04/25/2026

04/25/2026

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04/21/2026

What a fantastic paddle experience with this group, made even more delightful by the cooler Monday morning.

04/20/2026

Our journey along one of the area's most scenic water trails was truly unforgettable. We invite you to join us for our next swamp adventure.

04/02/2026

We started off with a little rain, by the end of the day, we had SUNSHINE!

03/19/2026