Welcome to the Turtle Cove Self-Guided Boardwalk Tour
Located at Pass Manchac
Click to view PDF files of the different signs located on our Self-Guided Boardwalk Tour. These are provided for educators to aid in the planning and developing of activities prior to a scheduled field trip: scavenger hunts, species identification exercises, etc.
Visitor's Guide: 2-page PDF (Turtle Cove provides a copy for each visitor upon arrival)
Boardwalk Stations:
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Gulf Menhaden & Bay Anchovy
- Blue Crab
- Blue & Channel Catfish
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Bald Eagle
- Brown Pelican
- Rangia Clam
- Laughing Gull
- Brown & White Shrimp
- Chinese tallow
- Seaside Goldenrod
- Baldcypress
- Lubber Grasshopper
- Common weed (Roseaucane)
- Dwarf Palmetto
- Canary grass
- Blue Flag & Louisiana Iris
- Spider Lily
- Deer Pea
- Bulltongue
- Eastern Baccharis & Marsh elder
- Alligator weed
- Southern & Diamond-backed Watersnake
- Virginia saltmarsh mallow
- Butterflies
- White-tailed Deer
- Great Blue Heron
- Pigweed
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Osprey
- Southern Cattail
- American White Ibis
- Great Egret
- River Otter
- Snowy Egret
- Leafy 3-square & 3-cornered grass
- Cypress Logging Ditches in Manchac
- Marshhay & Smooth cordgrass
- Cypress Logging Ditches
- Mosquito Fish
- Gulf & Least Killifish
- Sheepshead Minnow & Sailfin Molly
- Salt Marsh Aster
- Swamp smartweed
- Marsh morning glory
- Nutria
- Dodder
- Wild Boar
- Rattlebox
- Largemouth Bass & Bluegill
- Cottonmouth snake
- American Alligator
- Common Reptiles & Amphibians
- Common Turtles
- Swamp Red Maple