Alligators are common in Louisiana's extensive swamps, bogs, creeks, lakes, rivers, wetlands, and bayous. The Basin contains nationally significant expanses of bottomland hardwoods, swamplands, bayous, and back-water lakes. The most famous of these bayous are Cypress Bayou and Buffalo Bayou. Pine Bluff has numerous creeks, streams, and bayous. They are found in sheltered areas such as bays, bayous, lagoons, and estuaries. Much of the marsh and bayous remained impassable. Hunting, camping, and fishing are pastimes in the many bayous and rivers. Many populations can be commonly found growing near drain ditches and bayous in Houston, Texas. Gautier is a bedroom resort community surrounded by bayous and wetlands on three sides. Bald cypress and Spanish moss are the dominant plants in bayous. Flash flooding from the rains collected in bayous, covering streets and flooding some cars. The abandoned distributaries diminish in volume and form what are known as bayous. Many settled along the bayous in Terrebonne Parish. It was filmed by the bayous of South Louisiana. Many settled in South Memphis, a new and ethnically diverse neighborhood constructed on two bayous.