7 mo. ago • 97%

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13716493

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

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63 comments

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

That's a no for me dawg.

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- And leeches. Can't forget the leeches.
  
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  Didnt know landlords started buying up swamps, damn
  
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  And Shrek.
  
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- 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
  
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- Candiru.
  
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Eaten by leeches

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- Getting leeches on your balls kinda sucks. On one hand you want to rip them off but on the other hand you are lonely and it's been a while since anything's touched them. ¯\(ツ)/¯
  
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  Hey, we're not judging. You do you.
  
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mosquitos and malaria endorse this message!

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- Hungry gator wants to know your location
  
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Nasty insects, nasty animals, nasty diseases, nasty humidity. Yeah go on mate, tell us how cool swamps are

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- 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
  
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  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.
  
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- Volcanoes are cool too but I'm not gonna take a dip in one
  
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- Shrek lived in a swamp and I trust his taste
  
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  Can't argue with that 🤷
  
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There's a reason swamps are portrayed that way. They're generally unpleasant to be in for a variety of reasons. Just like being in a cold, dark, wet cave full of spider webs.

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- And being dangerous or unpleasant doesn't make those places devoid of beauty!
  
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Swamps are good, but as a Pacific-Northwesterner I prefer my wetlands in the form of a marshes and fens. I'd love a good bog though.

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

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- Have sex with me immediately
  
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are leeches not a concern?

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- No
  
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- simply drink so much moonshine it kills the buggers
  
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Could not be happier for you. I'm afraid of snapping turtles and the like, but if I weren't a little bitch I would jump in

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I mean yeah they're pretty but you're still gonna get dysentery, cholera, E. Coli, and 3-5 undiscovered parasites

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That water is so gross 🤢

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- It's just tannins.
  
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  so he's steeping
  
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  I detect an oaky afterbirth
  
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This guy is so cool. Really sees the beauty of Florida.

He waited years for one photo

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- Florida is beautiful. It's a damn shame about the culture that's developed there.
  
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  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.
  
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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.

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blew my mind when I first learned how useful bogs used to be for living off the land. preserves food and wood, tans leather, gives you fuel, great for foraging, etc

like where else can you find thousands of year old butter that is perfectly good to eat?

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- the parts of everything is as old as the universe
  
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  all primordial butter has been created in the big bang. Butter can not be created nor destroyed only transformed into new forms of butter
  
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Photo taken 4 minutes before completely sinking

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He will be missed.

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I think my black MTG lands are all beautiful already

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- What does Margarine Trailer Greens have to do with this?
  
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- Murmuring boak would like a murmur.
  
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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.

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- I think this guy was born with gator legs
  
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lot of fish poop in there

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- Fish poop in all the places they live.
  
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  Permanently Deleted
  
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It looks like he's found the secret Pepsi Cola source.

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Donald Trump gonna come for you

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- Is this a 'drain the swamp' refferance?
  
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- Seems like this went over everybody's head, but it was a quality joke.
  
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- Weird take but okay
  
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