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re: Swimming in a Bayou. Yes or no?
Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:18 am to _Hurricane_
Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:18 am to _Hurricane_
Grew up swimming in the borrow pits behind the levee and in the Mississippi River. Swimming on the levee is fun when the river's up but that water is freezing that time of year.
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Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:26 am to soccerfüt
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It specifically claimed to not be one.
True Dat
FTW I’ve swam in Lake Pontchartrain
Cane River
Lake Palourde
Some Bayou in Shreveport
Lake Verrett
4 mile Bayou
Grassy Lake
Belle River
Bayou Beouf
Bayou Teche
That’s just to name a few
Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:33 am to _Hurricane_
People in here talking about gators and snakes, but no one's mentioned the massive amounts of agricultural runoff that pollute the bayous? Do you know how much cow shite you're swimming in? I do, and it's a lot. No way I would get in there. Warm, shallow, still water is a petri dish for that kind of stuff.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:40 am to _Hurricane_
Ok by me, if it's ok,
bayou?
bayou?
Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:40 am to _Hurricane_
I can't start to count the number of times I swam in a bayou or lake or ditch while growing up. I still rarely make a fishing trip (in warm weather) without jumping in at least once (and I'm old).
I'm still convinced that the way I grew up is the reason I have such high resistance to every damn sickness bug that comes around.
Every day I learn more and more how sad it must be to be a kid these days.
I'm still convinced that the way I grew up is the reason I have such high resistance to every damn sickness bug that comes around.
Every day I learn more and more how sad it must be to be a kid these days.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:58 am to _Hurricane_
When I was young, I got ankle deep in a bayou. I was a kid, so I didn’t really think about how gross it was. Saw two water moccasins swimming about 10 feet away. Since then, unless I’m in a boat, kayak, or jet ski, I’ve never put my body in any bayou 
This post was edited on 1/8/20 at 7:59 am
Posted on 1/8/20 at 7:58 am to _Hurricane_
You haven’t lived until you’ve water ski’d past an alligator.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:00 am to _Hurricane_
I learned to swim in Bayou Rapides.
It is a sewer infested, ag polluted, muddy, trashy body of water, but when you are 10, you don't care. You just want to have fun and it is what was available in the summer.
It is a sewer infested, ag polluted, muddy, trashy body of water, but when you are 10, you don't care. You just want to have fun and it is what was available in the summer.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:03 am to _Hurricane_
Especially in rural areas this is done all the time
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:06 am to _Hurricane_
I learned to swim in Moccasin Bayou...so sure, why not. They can't get much worse than that.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:10 am to _Hurricane_
We all learned how to swim in Pierre Part Bayou.
I am amazed that many of us are still alive.
I am amazed that many of us are still alive.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:15 am to _Hurricane_
Bayou Teche was where I was if I wasn't working when growing up. Either boating, fishing or skiing.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:35 am to _Hurricane_
Hell no.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:40 am to _Hurricane_
When I first got to Louisiana by way of the Coast Guard, went went water skiing (I thing that's what it's called) in Bayou Teche. The fear I had when I was wading int he water waiting for the boat to come back around was enough for me to never want to do that again. Thought for sure a gator was going to get me.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:40 am to The Boat
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This is going to turn into a thread debating whether Cottonmouths will charge you or not.
Yeah, but can they bite you if you are underwater?
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:41 am to HuskyPanda
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water skiing (I thing that's what it's called)
wtf else would it be called?
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:41 am to _Hurricane_
Nope had camp on one for 20 years never a toe was exposed by any family members.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:46 am to BottomlandBrew
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but no one's mentioned the massive amounts of agricultural runoff that pollute the bayous? Do you know how much cow shite you're swimming in? I do, and it's a lot. No way I would get in there. Warm, shallow, still water is a petri dish for that kind of stuff.
I've been in the LSU lakes in the middle of summer. Have a hard time imagining that a bayou could be much worse.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:49 am to _Hurricane_
Grew up doing it, often times with open cuts. I never died. It just built my immune system.
Posted on 1/8/20 at 8:50 am to _Hurricane_
Used to have a rope swing hanging in my cousins backyard in Pierre Part that would land us in a bayou.
Water was gross, but it was fun. Stopped doing it after they shot a 10 foot gator
Water was gross, but it was fun. Stopped doing it after they shot a 10 foot gator
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