I considered and passed on hip-waders as an option. I think it's about 4 feet, possibly deeper in places. There is a pool behind my property. It has crawdads and fish and turtles and snakes and birds, to start with, and large freshwater clams in the mud. I'm a naturalist in good standing, but I don't think I want to wade around back there, the mud on the bottom is liable to be gooey. It's also an urban creek so there is a lot of runoff that passes through there. The banks have poison ivy in places.
I dropped off lots of stuff today. Clothes at Thrift Town, paper at the print shop (they were amused at how old that printer paper was. They will toss it in the recycle bin there.) CD and DVD disks and floppies to the media cruncher, until it jammed. They said they'd run the rest through for me, and maybe reformat a few of the old floppies to use around there.