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- "And then in here we have a special attraction. We call it the Blue Bayou Lagoon."
- ―Walt Disney
The Blue Bayou Lagoon, or simply the Blue Bayou, was a quiet bayou located outside of New Orleans, in Louisiana. It was the locations of many shacks as well as a mysterious passage that leads to Dead Man's Cove.
History[]
In the Blue Bayou, a thin layer of mist would often float over the water's surface. The inhabitants of the bayou typically lived in houseboats and elevated shacks that were situated in the middle of the swamp. During the evening, lazy fireflies have their evening flights as a local swamp-dweller passes the regular evening plucking out familiar southern tunes on their old banjos.
Crickets, frogs, toads, alligators, and all sorts of waterfowl hidden behind the mangroves sing their eerie songs quietly throughout the swamp as any rider drifted slowly toward the stone walls of a canal, which narrows into a brick channel that sweeps the boat toward a dark area.
A bricked passage in the bayou possessed the undead skull of a dead pirate. The history and motives of this skull are unknown but it would appear to hold mystic powers. When encountered by boat-riders the skull and this dark area would lead any visitor down two misty waterfalls, into a dark and mysterious grotto known as Dead Man's Cove.[1]
Locations[]
Laffite's Landing[]
Laffite's Landing was a landing located in the Blue Bayou. It was the area where people could get on a boat and ride through the lagoon.
The Blue Bayou Restaurant[]
The Blue Bayou Restaurant was a 19th century restaurant in New Orleans which would have a landing in the bayou nearby Lafitte's Landing.
Behind the scenes[]
- The Blue Bayou is referenced in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, where the Pantano River served as the Bayou, and fireflies can be seen outside Tia Dalma's shack.
- "Laffite's Landing" is named for the pirate Jean Laffite, who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century.
- A wrecked ship named the Blue Bayou appears on the Pantano River in the non-canon video game Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life.