Oh No You Di'nt

We've been on a few nature walks lately. Last week we went to find some locations to observe tadpoles. We came to an area where the trail was flooded. Someone didn't listen to me when I instructed them it was far too deep to cross. Someone wanted to find a way to cross anyway. And someone feel in. In to their chest. Unfortunately that someone was not impressed that I thought it was a little bit funny, and they refused to wait for me to put the memory card in my camera before they emptied the water out of their gum boots. The shot I wanted, I didn't get. But I did get this one.



And today we went out again. Looking for minnows. Treading through the thick, sticky muddy river bank. This time someone fell. Right in the mud. They decided they never want to go on muddy adventures again. Someone else got majorly stuck in the mud. I couldn't snap a photo of that. That just would've been too cruel. But I did get this one:



To me, that photo's kind of like a frog's eye view. I think they burrow in deep, when they see this predator near. They quietly, hardly breathing, wait for him to pass. Even though he's hardly a threat, if they would rather not come home and become a pet, they are better off to just hide in the grass.

And one last shot. That I sludged through mud up to my ankles (in hiking shoes) to get: