A Louisiana Fish Camp on Stilts With Gulf Views

Up on stilts in Cocodrie, Louisiana, this modernized modular "camp" looks out over Bay Cocodrie and Rabbit Bayou, close enough to the water that you can practically see South America. Reddit's questions were mostly about storms. The locals' answers were mostly about vocabulary.

A Camp, Not a House

At 900 square feet, the home has 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths, a full kitchen with updated appliances, and a breakfast bar that overlooks a den with new wide-plank flooring. It sits on owned property and is billed as a place to unwind after a long day on the water, for weekends or even year-round living. Cocodrie is an unincorporated fishing, shrimping, crabbing, and duck hunting village in Terrebonne Parish, with plenty of marinas, great seafood, and a marine research lab right down the street.

Before You Pack the Tackle Box

The listing says the home is built to withstand hurricane-force winds, but it doesn't say anything about flooding, and commenters were quick to point out that a house on stilts on the Louisiana coast is exposed to it. Anyone seriously considering this one would want to check the flood zone and get flood insurance quotes first. The lot is also small, and commenters noted that most of the property is the view.

The Internet Has Thoughts

Naturally, this listing caught the attention of Reddit's r/zillowgonewild community, where Southerners patiently explained that a "fish camp" is an off-grid-style cabin you stay in on fishing trips, and that "fingers" are the little points of land where a river meanders. That set off a side conversation about Canadians whose "cottages" are enormous lake mansions. On the house itself, the jokes ran to a very long coffee order, "upwardly mobile home," and the stilts being what one commenter called flood insurance. Another suggested strapping an outboard motor to a window AC unit, and one figured you're paying $50,000 for the property and $150,000 for the lifestyle and bragging rights. See what people are saying about it here.

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