The Great Delta Tours

10/17/2024

09/08/2024

Football season is back and so are our Saints Watch Parties! Join us for the first Saints Watch Party of the season on September 15th! We'll be at Tracey's Original Irish Channel Bar at their new location on Magazine St and Fat Boy's Pizza in Mandeville. 💙⚔️🏈
Register for the Northshore here: https://ow.ly/ILQa50TgqjL
Register for New Orleans here: https://ow.ly/tOvb50TgqjM

08/08/2022

Wonderful birding adventure with Dr. Peter Yaukey University of Holy Cross at the beautiful Sankofa Wetlands Park, sponsor of event with Orleans Audubon! It’s a special place that celebrates the wonders of our delta, new recreational places and a more resilient community!

06/19/2022

would like to thank and The Meraux Foundation for organizing a trip for teachers to visit CPRA’s Lake Borgne Marsh Creation project!

This project is anticipated to create over 2,700 acres of marsh in St. Bernard Parish. It is one of the largest marsh creation projects in Louisiana’s history. is honored to be the lead engineer and project manager.

Learn more by visiting https://duplantisdesigngroup.com/projects/lake-borgne/

05/26/2022

Impressive Group of Savills Real Estate Executives who rebuilt the Madare Boardwalk yesterday with our terrific partners at Hands On New Orleans and Bayou Sauvage Refuge. Thanks for your investment in a resilient coastal New Orleans!!!

05/17/2022

Hosted special American Queen guests who enjoyed meeting Don Robin, a fifth generation Islenos oysterman and sampling fresh oysters grilled on his docks in Ycloskey, LA!!!

05/08/2022

Amazing adventure at St. Bernard Birding Festival led by Nic Dixson with Audubon Society! Visited breath-taking birding rookery in Caernarvon area where wetlands have been restored!!! Hopeful!😎

12/21/2021

The Great Delta Tours invites guests to experience restoration efforts, up close and personal.

09/21/2021

Great to be on the road again as the American Queen Pre-Cruise Tour “Beyond the Floodwalls”. Our partners at the Islenos Cultural Village and Robin Seafood in Ycloskey warmly welcomed us as they recover from Cat 4 Hurricane Ida! Our eco experiences seem even more relevant and important!

08/12/2021

Breaking News in Ycloskey, LA. Don Robin, Robin Seafood, launched one of his oyster boats to build up his oyster reefs! Not only are they delicious to eat, oysters and oyster reefs improve the water quality, provide fishing habitat, support the local economy and help protect the shoreline from storm surge!!! Love Ycloskey Oysters!!!🦪💕

10/13/2020

How it started: How it's going:

(Since 1932, Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands -- equivalent to the entire state of Delaware. Without action, we could lose twice that amount in 50 years. Get involved today to help avoid this frightening scenario: https://mississippiriverdelta.org/get-involved/)

10/13/2020

UNO PROUD!

Growing up in Marrero, La., alumna Sabrina Farmer never planned or even dreamed of attending college. Farmer assumed after high school she would become a secretary.

Now the VP of site reliability for many of Google's billion-customer products including Gmail, Search, Google Maps, Android and Chrome, Farmer reflects on her time at the University of New Orleans and how it influenced her career path.

📰 | bit.ly/2SQKEzM

10/09/2020

MRGO Coalition: Promising Progress!!!
New report says "the closure of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet is possibly the most beneficial restoration project to date in Louisiana." Marsh, swamp, ridge and oyster restoration is evident. Critical to the safety of 1.5 million people in Coastal New Orleans.
https://mrgomustgo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MRGO-White-Paper-10-01-2020.pdf Restore the Mississippi River Delta Pontchartrain Conservancy Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana New Orleans and Company

09/23/2020

Happy Fall Eqinox!!! As observed by Dr. Peter Yaukey, co-founder of The Great Delta Tours, we have our own "Stonehenge" or Crescent Henge !!! Less than 24 hours past the Equinox (Sept. 22),the sunrise is framed nicely by the Crescent City Bridge. The sun rises due east on the equinoxes, but shifts to the left (north) in summer and right (south) in winter. The bridge runs due east so frames it on the equinoxes! So Cool!

08/19/2020

The Great Delta Tours celebrates the cultural richness, economic importance and culinary delights of our local seafood industry. Great news! $25.6 from BP Oil Spill revenue for NOLA region to better manage and increase oyster production!
https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_17debd6c-da7d-11ea-b2d4-43c9a8714188.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
the Mississippi River Delta

07/14/2020

The public now has the opportunity to suggest questions about the impacts and benefits of the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion, which will inform the way the project moves forward.

06/19/2020

Listen. Enjoy. Beautiful treasure in New Orleans you might experience on The Great Delta Tours. Bayou Sauvage Urban Wildlife Refuge, the largest in the US! Precious wetlands being restored that ensures New Orleans’ future. group tours