SLIDELL, La. (WAFB) - Just a few miles east of Slidell along the Pearl River, you can disappear into one of the state’s last untouched wetlands. This is the Honey Island Swamp. 77,000 acres of wilderness.

“y’all ever heard that saying, Don’t let the bedbugs bite. Yeah. Came from people using Spanish moss used to put it in their mattresses and their pillows,” said Jessep Holley.

Cajun encounters tour guide, Jessep Holley grew up just a few miles from here. Hunting, fishing, and boat riding on these rivers and bayous.

“That’s one of Louisiana’s last untouched wetlands, meaning there’s no, there’s no pipelines going through, there’s no gas lines, there’s, there’s no oil platforms out here. This is exactly way, the exact way the Honey Island Swamp needs to be,” said Holley.

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