Swamp and Wetlands: Love 'em or Hate 'em?

The only thing that would interest me about an area like this would be hunting. Big bucks tend to hang in these areas. :D
Scott
 
A Hammy is the easiest, fastest, and maybe the most comfortable way to sleep. You will not get away from bug bites in a Hammy as easy as in a Swamp Bed. Last month I got bit pretty good in a hammock on the back of my head and back. Them mosquitos will bite through some hammies in the jungle! Swamp bed with bug net is real safe when it comes to bugs if that is your main concern.
-RB
 
I spent about month in a Panamanian jungle near Ft. Sherman in 90'. I'd prefer NOT to go back, unless I DID have a hammock and a nice net. I had neither, and it was miserable.
 
tonym said:
Looks like the expedition hammock from Mosquito hammocks. I have the jungle version. Just an awesome hammock and mosquitos can't bite through that one!:thumbup:

http://www.mosquitohammock.com/
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Thanks for the link :thumbup:. I like the Jungle Hammock, pretty much the most expensive one, I guess I just have good taste :D. Now I have something to save up for, and that can easily replace my tent in space and weight.
 
If it wasn't for the hammock I wouldn't have gotten any sleep at all. There was nowhere to pitch a tent. I didn't see a dry spot until the next day, three miles past my campsite. My hammock was a homemade Speer type with a sewn in mosquito net. The body was 1.8 oz ripstop nylon and the skeeters were biting any part of me that touched it. I even soaked the whole thing in permithin. A tube or sock type mosquito net would have been the way to go.
 
Those clarks look great, but they're so damn expensive. How do you like yours?
 
I have no choice. I live and play in the swamp. It's teaching me how to adapt, as I used to enjoy mountain terrain.

On water purification. There is lots of water, here. Standing, canals, etc. I was getting tired of packing in so much water to sustain my day trips, so I picked up a Katadyn Vario with ceramic and carbon filtration. Now I need to muster-up the balls to pump some canal and lake water and drink it. Hopefully, I won't get the squirts.
 
On water purification. There is lots of water, here. Standing, canals, etc. I was getting tired of packing in so much water to sustain my day trips, so I picked up a Katadyn Vario with ceramic and carbon filtration. Now I need to muster-up the balls to pump some canal and lake water and drink it. Hopefully, I won't get the squirts.
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I was just a bit north of you (Corbitt) and I was leery of drinking any groundwater. After I drank the 7 liters I brought with me, I ended up treating (iodine tabs) and drinking about three liters with no ill effects...

What made you choose the Katadyn Vario over the hiker?
 
FWIW here is my home made hammock. Total cost was about $50. Most of that was the fabric for the body and mosquito net. It was good just to test out the concept and see if I like it. I think there is too much sag in this setup and my netting can use better support.

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Hey Mikeal,

I read that the maintenance for the Vario was easier, along with the pumping volume. Perhaps I missed something during research, but it seemed to be the only Katadyn in the price range that had both ceramic filtration for the microbes and carbon for chemicals.
 
Like most of the posters here I doubt I'd ever go back to the swamps I visited in Florida. I almost went crazy swatting at mosquitos. The humidity was crushing as well. No thanks. More power to those who live near them though.
 
Florida Trail, Ocean to Lake section in late June. It is probably impassable now. Don't give up on Florida hiking yet. Fall and Winter are hiking season down here. The mosquitoes are almost non-existent and the humidity is more manageable.

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We camped in The Okefenokee Swamp here in Georgia once. Damn raccoon walked up and grabbed my boot off the ground before I could get the other one off. I rolled him with a canoe paddle just before he dissapeared and luckily he dropped it. He came back in the middle of the night with some henchmen and they tried to dismantle a 48qt Igloo cooler.
 
tonym said:
Those clarks look great, but they're so damn expensive. How do you like yours?
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the best sleep I've had in months was in that very set-up that I took the picture of on the last page.That hammock was worth every penny I spent on it.
 
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