No kidding. If there's one thing I've never been able to comprehend how people can do it, it's walking through ponds/marshland with barefeet. I mean, I can't even understand how people do it up here in Canada where the worst you have is icky, unknown water floor with various bugs and maybe leeches.
But in the American south with so many poisonous/venoumous animals hanging out? I literally wouldn't be able to walk through like that guy if someone was going to hand me $1000 at the other end, let alone for fun on a nature hike.
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No kidding. If there's one thing I've never been able to comprehend how people can do it, it's walking through ponds/marshland with barefeet. I mean, I can't even understand how people do it up here in Canada where the worst you have is icky, unknown water floor with various bugs and maybe leeches.
But in the American south with so many poisonous/venoumous animals hanging out? I literally wouldn't be able to walk through like that guy if someone was going to hand me $1000 at the other end, let alone for fun on a nature hike.
I always wear my sneakers or hikers when I wade.
Lat year we were in over a foot of water -sometimes more- for miles on this trail.
It's odd how we only saw 2 venomous snakes and 2 gators on the whole 72 miles.
Yes of course there were all those we didn't see. At least cotton mouths usually stay on top of the water.
This particular canal has a bottom consisting of a grid with sand over it in the trail crossing
area.
For the other watery parts, there's no way we would go barefoot. Cypress knees, tree roots, fallen logs, "gator backs" (horizontal palmetto roots and branches)- your feet would be lacerated.
When I'm by myself I wear snake boots; sometimes full length snake chaps if I'm wading.
That helicopter and antivenin trip is damned expensive!
, Jupiter, Florida.
