Still a month too early,to go into Cottonmouth Swamp....the deer haven't moved down from the hills yet.
And the snakes are "still in the blind:,as the oldtimers say....will strike at movement.
But not worried about poachers or trespassers,there.
Am worried about the deer.
After the tailwinds from Hurricane Hugo? Ike? came thru and tore up the woods,then the two-week ice storm a couple years ago,then the blue tongue hit..... the deer who didn't migrate North, we are only seeing 15-20% of the deer we saw in 2007; early '08....
My 2 B'rers & I run 6 digital trail cameras....our deer pictures dropped from 23.6 average,per camera per day,to less than 4/camera/day.
On two sides of our property (54 acres) are 240+ acres of late corn.On the third side is 175 acres of soybeans.Our place is oak woods,persimmon trees,honeysuckle,green briars/saw briars,hills & hollers,5.5 acres of deer browse,most of the other 49.5 acres is steep,overgrown,thick.
Four old established mineral licks.
There is one small lake we built....and Greasy Creek flows thru it,year round....empties into Cottonmouth Swamp.
And there is one pit of quicksand,about 10-12' wide X 25-30' long.
When my Dad was 6,which would have been in 1910 or 1911,they lost a neighbor,a road wagon,and a team of mules in there,in the dark,during a storm.He & my Grandfather tracked him ,the wagon & the mules,until the tracks disappeared into the muck....which is always covered with old leaves,small brush.....well-hidden and ominous.
As far as we can tell,the only people who remain,who know the location of that quicksand , is B'rer Byron,B'rer Bill,and myself.
Since it has been famous for cottonmouths,copperheads & quicksand for 100 years now, people stay the Hell out.
Even the lowlife meth makers.
We like it that way,and we never give guided tours.
~Gnarly
, but anyways on the way back out i ran across this guy, i had my buddy run and grab the battery and snapped a couple before he hole'd up...
