• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1101·
    2 years ago

    Flesh eating bacteria. Brain eating ameba. Snakes. Gators. Snapping turtles. Mosquitoes by the trillion.

    That’s a no for me dawg.

    • Lepsea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      Flesh eating bacteria. Brain eating ameba

      I was wondering if I would find this in lemmy because I found it in almost every post on Instagram that is similar to the photo.

      I understand the fear but you’re more likely to die from drowning in the swamp than from flesh eating bacteria and brain eating amoeba

  • Noodle07@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    2 years ago

    Nasty insects, nasty animals, nasty diseases, nasty humidity. Yeah go on mate, tell us how cool swamps are

    • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
      45·
      2 years ago

      But swamps are cool, but you’re also very right they’re gross and I would much rather observe from afar or from a picture

      • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        301·
        2 years ago

        While swamps seem “gross” they are actually the cleanest things in nature.

        Wetlands are massive water quality processors, they are the opposite of dirty or gross, though I completely understand that feeling that stomping through thick mud is gross.

        • Waterdoc@lemmy.caEnglish
          32·
          2 years ago

          Clean is relative, there are lots of contaminants in wetland water that make it unsafe. They are incredibly important and very useful for naturally cleaning water, but please don’t drink the swamp water.

          • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            33·
            2 years ago

            Who put those contaminants there though?

            Swamp creatures didn’t, the swamp didn’t, we did.

            • Waterdoc@lemmy.caEnglish
              12·
              2 years ago

              Not not contaminants are anthropogenic. Decomposing organic matter, heavy metals from soil and rock erosion, microorganisms and microbial by-products all naturally occur in wetlands and are dangerous to us. There’s nothing wrong with that, just don’t drink it or get it in open wounds :)

              • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                9·
                2 years ago

                There are some Dutch wetlands where the natural arsenic levels are high enough that by picking up a bucket of dirt and then placing it back down, you are technically committing an environmental crime.

                There’s so much arsenic in the ground, it’s killing the beavers who chew on the trees that grow there (birches don’t care, beavers do).

                And it’s been there since before humans even lived there. Just naturally occurring pollution.

  • pancakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    Me, an intellectual: swamps are beautiful and wonderful because they can be tapped for one black mana.

      • RBWells@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        I live here and it’s fine in the cities, they just have us gerrymandered to shit. And yes, I grew up here and never saw the beauty until I left for awhile and came back.

  • LonelyWendigo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Clyde Butcher is one of the greatest American landscape photographers since Ansel Adams and a true hero of modern naturalism. Not only does he hike out into the swamp under conditions that would make most here wilt like cotton candy in the rain (see other comments), he often does it with camera equipment that is ancient, heavy, and bulky by today’s standards.

    The biggest danger in the Everglades isn’t leeches (not at all common), brain eating amoebas (just keep your head above water), snakes (most would rather just slither away), snapping turtles (only aggressive when trapped), or gators (generally slow, predictable, dumb, and avoidable); it’s ignorance. The swamp isn’t a place into which you’d want to be dropped off unprepared and unequipped, but neither is LA of New York City. Clive Butcher walks the line between tough man and sensitive artist, cottage-core and goblin-core, Lorax and Crocodile Dundee.

    Clive Butcher also did a landscape photography series of Salvador Dali’s home town that really opened my eyes about the scenes and settings in many of Dali’s paintings. It becomes clear that although surreal, many of the landscapes in Dali’s paintings are actually surprisingly real places painted literally but adorned with surreal characters and objects.

  • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    All of my knowledge on bayous comes from hunt:showdown and my future decisions regarding waterlogged terrain will be based on an acute expectation of demonic incursion.