Few pics from south Louisiana. Looking for concrete monuments set in 1951 found the 3 I needed undisturbed. The other 2 were under the water.
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Shoot 'em!
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Looks like FL swamps. A good portion of FL "swamps" are mostly wet weather swamps but we have some year round. I have heard LA swamps can get pretty deep? Most of our are chest deep or less. The year round ones are usually well populated with Moccasins but rarely with gators. How about yours? ?????ÿ
Never, would I venture out there on foot. Kuddos to you, thank for sharing.
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Is the gator picture a joke??ÿ
I can't imagine placing the bi-pod from in a boat and feeling safe, but I must admit we have no wildlife here, just cows, horses and sheep and now and then the Alpaca's.
Christof.
Yucky.
@christ-lambrecht The gator picture is definitely not a joke. I worked in those swamps years ago, I'll stay in North Dakota now.
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no joke, gators are everywhere. I was just walking in the swamp with waders, water is still a little to cold for my preferred method of old shoes and shorts. The only time you have to worry about gators is when the mom is on the nest. Cottonmouths are what you have to watch out for in these swamps. This swamp was about nut deep. The swamp depth depends on how is was logged years ago.
Wow, I'm glad I'm a surveyor in Belgium! Looks scary and dangerous from here, but I can understand that if you grow up there you learn to deal with it and can assess the risks.
Have fun in the field and let the pictures come!
While working in some Flatwoods, it is usually an alligator gar that gets cornered and stepped on in a shallow spot that has attacked me in a frenzy.
Generally, when you have located man-eating critters and give them their due space, they will usually not bother anyone.
And if you come upon a baby anything, turn around and get clear of them asap.
Those areas are best visited when it is 35F and below.
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About 10 years ago some out-of-state workers on contract to a local rural electric cooperative had sought my help on the official width of the right-of-way along a certain county road as it curved into a bridge crossing a fair-sized creek. As we were discussing this matter, one of the fellows asked, "Do you have many alligators around here?" I replied there should be none, ever, anywhere near here. They looked at each other and then turned back to me and said, "So what was that dead creature we found on the creek bank down there?" I had to think about that for a minute before answering, "Remember the house at the top of the hill east of the bridge. The lady that lives there is a veterinarian and keeps quite a menagerie of animals for her own entertainment. I had heard she had a caiman around four feet long that disappeared some time ago. That must have been it." They agreed that the remnants of what they had found would have been about that long.