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This is a crawfishing boat, one of the strangest looking contraptions ever built. But, it is what is used to harvest crawfish. A lot of crawfish fields are right along a major interstate where I live, I-10. I can only wonder what tourists from out of state must think when they see one of these contraptions slogging through a flooded rice field. Crawfish are a second crop for farmers after harvesting rice. The rice field is then flooded with only inches of water and then crawfish traps with bait inside (fish)like the one sitting by the boat with a red top are placed throughout the field. Of course you can't run a regular boat engine through only inches of water so someone came up with that weird looking disk wheel at the back of the boat that pushes the craft through the mud and water. Ahhh, the ingenuity of Cajuns. Paste this link in your browser (Crawfish Boat YouTube) to see one in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0extLHtC7w
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