Swamps can be fun. As student ecologists, we waded in them at night with lights catching tree frogs to see the types that were there- grab for the eyes! Moccasins' eyes also shine, but the distance between the eyes is greater.
The instructor in charge had a badly crippled hand- he had made a mistake twice.
Clothes once worn wading in sulfurous swamp mud can never be worn in polite society.