Sites and Sounds of Tara

Here you have a 5,700 square foot building called the Herbert Bryant Conference Center which can accommodate up to 100 guests. It's an ideal setting for your corporate retreats, business meetings, team building seminars, family reunions, workshops and church & social groups. It is equipped with the latest audio-visual technology, DVD and surround sound. It also has phone and modem lines for you and your business needs.

Hunting: You have more than 13,000 acres of hardwood forests and intermingled agricultural lands located along the Mississippi River are designated for bow hunting only. Some 326 Pope & Young Class (gross scores) bucks have been harvested from Tara properties since 1995. Bucks weighing over 200 pounds are common and as high as 320 pounds have been recorded. Tara is also a great place to chase a gobbling turkey!

This is looking to the left of where we had stopped and you can see an inlet from the backwaters of the MS River.

As you can see, the Mississippi River to the right is real low and the sandbar was covering the rest of the land. A very pretty stop. Of course, that is Louisiana on the other side.

We entered this huge area that was pretty open and flat and the guide told us that Maggie Bryant, Tara's Founder, named it "Little Africa."

We passed by a lake on the property and saw an Egret sitting on a log in the water. The guide told us that an alligator had been there swimming around, but guessed he got tired of all the commotion of the bus and people bothering him, so he took off for a quieter place to hang out.

This cute little boy was taking it all in and I could not resist taking his picture!

The lady in the straw hat was very informative, talking about the birds and pointing out the vegetation. She just about took over the show. The driver was suppose to be an Audubon employee, but for some reason a Tara Wildlife employee drove and he was most likely a hunting guide. He was very informative on the layout of Tara and how the MS River floods the hunting land. One thing that I did observe was that there were a lot of food plots along side the road as we drove through Tara's hardwood bottomland.

After we got on the open-air bus we headed across a levee to go into the woods for a nice Sunday ride. About five minutes into the ride, a deer ran across the road in front of us. That was exciting! We saw a lot of birds, plants and butterflies everywhere. Would you believe coming out before we went back over the levee to get to Tara's Wildlife Lodge, that a Armadillo ran under the bus and we hit it. That was not a good thing!