Even in hip waders we were overdressed for the ankle deep creek, but we stepped in, waded out to the middle and faced upstream.
At intervals stood fishermen in waders, an abandoned tractor rotting in a field, a pair of deer, an ancient Indian village with totem poles hard to glimpse through the trees.
It was not the blob of dead jellyfish, but rather pieces of its stinging tentacles that stung the waders, scientists said.
Along the strand, there are too few shorebirds: some solitary sandpipers, least timid of the waders, but that is it.
That has dire consequences not only for fishermen but for seabirds and rare waders too.
Look at the news anchorman standing in his waders in the rising river as the water approaches his chest.
Chasing new kinds of food sources deeper into the water, these early waders gradually developed longer snouts and sharper teeth better suited for snapping up fish.
His head was back above the water, but he was still trapped in the waders, and he was losing his breath.
