• 2 months ago
The Outdoor Boys spent 5 days in the biggest swamp in Louisiana, so of course we decided to go hiking and camping deep in the bayou. We hiked through chest deep muck, braved a storm and fed thousands of mosquitoes.
We also made frog leg jambalaya with some yellow throated frogs we caught with our hands in the swamp.

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00:00All right boys, you ready to go play in the mud?
00:23Yeah!
00:24You want your spears, right?
00:31Yeah!
00:32All right, thanks!
00:33Go eat it!
00:34See you tomorrow!
00:35What do you think, is this swampy enough for us?
00:36It's swampy!
00:37All right, follow me.
00:39See, follow the lamp.
00:43See, follow the lamp.
00:52Oh yeah, we can steer an alligator.
00:54We're dangerous.
00:56You are dangerous.
00:57Yeah, we are.
00:58For a lot of reasons.
00:59Daddy, if whales had technology, they would have guns as big as cement trucks.
01:05They would probably just break and kill us in one shot.
01:09Yeah, it gets deep over here.
01:22Oh, big wasp.
01:29Oh, it's steep.
01:32Okay, why don't you guys go push through.
01:35This would be easy for an alligator, is that right?
01:37Yeah, you'd just swim underneath it.
01:39I'm touching the bottom.
01:40Oh, no, I'm on tippy toes.
01:42Oh, look at the spikes on that tree.
01:44That's like a death tree.
01:46That is the most unfriendly tree.
01:48That tree does not like tree huggers.
01:50Oh, this is a nice place to swim.
01:54Oh, do we have to swim now?
01:55Yeah, it is.
01:58This is really deep.
02:02Oh, that's green stuff, folks.
02:04Let me find a spoon.
02:07My gator is just going to swim over here.
02:10Tommy has an imaginary pet alligator that's following us.
02:13His name is Chomper. Isn't that right?
02:15Look at all those tickle spiders.
02:18Little tickle spiders, huh?
02:24Do you need help?
02:26Daddy, it's getting shallow.
02:29Yeah, keep going straight, boys.
02:30It's going shallow.
02:31Yeah, you got a good path there, Tom.
02:33It's kind of deep.
02:39My adult can kind of use the bathing in this water.
02:44Oh, it's land.
02:46Yeah, land ho.
02:48Careful, Tom. That's where the snakes like to hang out.
02:50They like to hang out on the land.
02:56Now, normally, being on land is bad for the snakes
02:58because this is how they sun themselves.
03:00The clouds came in, so it's not sunny anymore.
03:02I just don't want another banana spider in my face.
03:05Oh, my goodness.
03:07Those are the creepiest spiders.
03:11Whoa! Banana spider!
03:15Hurry up, guys. There's a rainstorm coming.
03:18All right, guys. We found ourselves a little bit of high land.
03:21And there's some trees here that we can start using to build camp.
03:26Got to be really careful. A lot of poison ivy around here.
03:29This right there, that's poison ivy.
03:31That's poison ivy. That's poison ivy.
03:33That on the tree is poison ivy.
03:35You can tell it's got the three leaves,
03:37and then it's got the little, like, a thumb on the outside.
03:41All right, guys. You ready to build camp?
03:43Yeah.
03:45Hold it. That's rain.
03:47Come on. The rain's coming.
03:49I've got to get you guys someplace dry.
03:51It's dry.
04:01Here's my Japanese pocketknife. I love this thing.
04:04All right.
04:06We better get this tarp up.
04:08I hear some thunder in the background.
04:10I think it's going to rain here soon.
04:22Here it comes.
04:34There we go, guys. We got the tarp up.
04:36You guys staying out of the rain?
04:38Yeah.
04:39All right. Let's get the hammocks.
04:41All right. We got mosquito nets and hammocks,
04:45and we're going to need both.
04:52All right. Luckily, I brought
04:54one of the most important pieces of survival gear,
04:57a handkerchief.
04:59Let's wipe those feet off.
05:01Okay. Now hop on in there.
05:03As long as you're below the sides,
05:05you can't fall out, just like a boat.
05:07Anything that touches the ground
05:09is muddy, grimy, wet, and stinky,
05:11so the hammocks cannot touch the ground.
05:13And this is hard to do.
05:15So what you do is just wrap it around your neck
05:17and work that way so that you don't drop your hammock.
05:20Wow. I got that tarp up just in the nick of the time,
05:23and got both the boys' hammocks up,
05:25and they're sharing a mosquito net,
05:27and that seems to be working really well.
05:29I got to get a third hammock and second mosquito net up,
05:32and then we'll be in a little bit of room to breathe.
05:35I've got a problem with my brand-new hammock.
05:38You know how there's the string on a hoodie,
05:41and if you pull it on one side,
05:43the string will come out, and your hoodie's drawstring
05:45is kind of done?
05:47That's what's happened to my hammock,
05:49and I'm trying to redo it really quick.
05:52Uh-huh! I got it!
05:54Oh, man, the rain has brought the bugs out,
05:57but I've got the boys out of the rain and under the tarp.
06:00Now I need to worry about food,
06:02and, man, I just need something to cook on
06:05and a way to cook out of the rain and out of the mud,
06:08so we'll see what we can come up with.
06:10The bugs aren't as bad as you'd expect in the bayou,
06:13except at sunset and when it rains,
06:16and they're just terrible right now.
06:18So I'm going to put on some of this Ulthuan 12-hour bug repellent.
06:22This is the good stuff.
06:24This is some of the best bug repellent you can get.
06:27So we'll see if it works.
06:36Oh, I'm walking through a lot of spiderwebs.
06:39Oh!
06:49Oh!
06:54All this right here is poison ivy,
06:56and the sap is what gets you.
06:58And so I've got to make sure not to touch the blade
07:01or anything that's touched the poison ivy.
07:05Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!
07:07Diarrhea! Diarrhea! Diarrhea!
07:09They're whispering.
07:12Chomp!
07:15Chomp!
07:16There's lots more, so...
07:24I'm not...
07:28Are you trying to bust me, sister?
07:35Whoa.
07:36Are you trying to bust me, sister?
07:42Boom.
07:46Boom.
07:53Boom.
07:55Boom!
08:03Bark!
08:08Bark!
08:11This is that thorn tree, so got to take all the thorns off it
08:22Boys! Nathan, that's really bad for the mosquito netting, okay
08:32All right guys, less roughhousing in the hammocks, okay?
08:41Oh
08:53What is in there?
08:55Wow, something just stung me between my toes and it really hurts. I think this plant must be like some sort of stinging nettle
09:02Whoo, ouch
09:11Nathan, did you fall out of your hammock again?
09:31Yeah
09:41Daddy, we're in the same group, we're in the same group
10:01Daddy, that's not a break, that is a stick
10:19Yeah, your pet chameleon is riding the tree, bro
10:25I'm so proud of Tommy and Nate, they've been in that hammock for a couple hours now
10:28And they've been entertaining themselves wonderfully. All they've got is a mayonnaise jar with a chameleon and a tree frog in it
10:35Oh yeah
10:42All right, there we go
10:44Got it done. Well, there you go. This platform is pretty solid
10:47You don't need to lash the decking together. Just the compression of everything squeezed tightly together keeps it in place
10:59Is that a little bit better?
11:01Yeah
11:02I can see a little bit more. Hey, you can push yourself with your feet, huh?
11:05Yeah, that works
11:07Well, I've been sweating my brains out, man. I gotta get some water in me. So we're gonna do some cool water purification techniques
11:14When you look at the swamp water around here, the word stagnant and putrid comes to mind
11:20So I wouldn't recommend drinking it straight
11:23So what we're gonna do is we're gonna use a product called Chlorofloc
11:27It chlorinates water, kills bacteria and viruses, and then it makes all the sediment and suspended material fall to the bottom
11:34And then we can filter it out really easily
11:36So it makes the water not only safe but tastes a heck of a lot better, too
11:39So you put about one or two of these packets per liter
11:42We got three liters in here
11:44So I'm gonna go full throttle and put six packets in
11:49Once you've added the packets, you shake this for one full minute
11:52Let it sit for 30 seconds, then shake it again a little bit
11:55Then let it sit for at least 15 minutes
11:57And then you can take it to the next level
11:59So we're gonna put it in this bucket
12:01for 30 seconds then shake it again a little bit and let it sit for at least 15 minutes.
12:08There we go, that's a minute. We'll let this sit for a little while. I'm going to straighten up
12:12camp and then we're going to shake it some more and we'll have drinking water. When you're just
12:17wallowing in mud like this you just got to have a platform. The boys here are changing into their
12:22jammies and they need some place to stand and they can do it without getting out of the bug net.
12:28It's just so important.
12:30Well guys, the sun is setting quickly here in the bayou and we
12:59need to eat dinner and so we are going to make fried frog jambalaya and I have a bag of four
13:05live yellowthroat frogs that me and the boys caught last night with our bare hands.
13:10If you guys would like to see that video and see our week-long excursion here in the bayou,
13:16we have caught and cooked gar and blue catfish and buffalo and blue crabs, the huge blue crabs.
13:25We're down here with Cajun Experience and if you don't know who those guys are,
13:29I'll put a link in the description. If you want to see our week-long adventure,
13:33I'll put a link to that video as well. So definitely check that out. But I have got to
13:39butcher and cook up some frogs. I'll tell you guys, fried frog legs are no joke,
13:45one of the best things ever. But we're going to try jambalaya style today. Cleaning frogs is pretty
13:50easy. Just chop off the head, remove the feet, take off the skin and the guts.
14:01Four frog legs in a pot. Well by now the chlorofloc has really done its job.
14:06Look how clear that water is and there's all this junk down here on the bottom.
14:11A little bit still floating in it but we're going to filter those out.
14:21All right, we're going to put some Cajun seasoning on these frog legs
14:28and get them nice and flavorful. Let that sit.
14:38The seasoning is making the frogs twitch and jump. That's when you know it's fresh.
14:44Is that creepy?
14:54My pot's too small for these frog legs. I gotta quarter them.
15:00There we go. All right, now they fit in the pot nicely.
15:08Now we're going to fry up a bunch of vegetables.
15:13All right, now we've got this Cajun spicy jambalaya mix here. We're going to add in there.
15:30That's looking pretty good. Just bring that to boil and we're going to simmer it for a while.
15:33Should be ready.
15:38My legs sure are gross but the mosquitoes love them.
15:43We're really putting our bug repellent to the test. I mean, there are just a
15:46ton of mosquitoes in here. I haven't seen this many mosquitoes since I was a boy in Alaska.
15:52Well, that Ultron bug repellent works pretty good and it doesn't burn or smell nasty like beet does
15:59but you really got to cover every nook and cranny with it or they will find a sweet spot.
16:05Oh, see look right there. You got one right there.
16:18Do you want some jambalaya? Yeah.
16:22Don't spill in there. Remember, this is your bed. Hey Tommy, what do you think?
16:26It's a little spicy. It's a little spicy? Yeah, that's Cajun food.
16:38Well, I think the frogs and jambalaya taste delicious
16:42but the boys here disagree so we have a fallback plan. Hot dogs.
16:50Who's ready for some hot dogs? Okay, grab that. Don't spill them.
17:02Well, I just finished dinner and I can hear tons of bullfrogs and yellow-throated frogs
17:07out here around us so we're gonna see if we can't catch some. I am wearing this high-powered
17:11headlamp on my head and I'm shining it around looking for the blue light of frog eyes and
17:17of frog eyes and if I shine the light in their eyes they'll hold still long enough I can get
17:22up to them and hopefully grab one but it also makes all the spiders and other creepy crawlies
17:28in the swamp make their eyes glow as well. I can see all of these twinkling lights.
17:33There are thousands and thousands of spider eyes here in this swamp. It's kind of cool,
17:38kind of disconcerting. That was a big bullfrog. I've already seen three
17:47frogs in a very short period of time. Oh, there's a big one and they're just everywhere.
18:09Dang it, I was so close to that one. Oh, geez, there's some big bullfrogs here.
18:15Oh, yes, broken turtle eggs. There's some more.
18:30Hear that? He squeaked at me. Oh, man, there was a bunch of bullfrogs there
18:35but sneaking up on these guys was a bit much. They were really, really gun-shy. Luckily,
18:42we had a really successful frog hunting catch and cook trip earlier this week so I'll put a
18:47link in the description to some of our other videos where we were a little more successful
18:52catching frogs but it is late and it's time to get to bed so I'm going to tuck these guys in
18:58and we're going to call it for the night.
19:18I do not have a clue how I would change out of these muddy clothes if I didn't have this
19:22platform to sit on. Holy mackerel. All right, let's get to it. Mosquitoes are going to love
19:27this part. Let's see, Tommy, you in here? Yeah, up here. Nate, you in here? Yeah, I'm right here.
19:33All right, I'm here. We got three hammocks under one tarp. All three of us are right
19:38in each other's business. This is close quarters. All right, guys, let's see if we can get to sleep.
19:44Oh, guys, I gotta tell you that was one of the roughest night sleeps I've ever had.
20:00Right before I fell asleep, I was in my skivvies and I flipped my hammock, fell into the mud,
20:05and I tore a hole in the mosquito netting and I had to jump out in my underwear
20:10and fix the mosquito netting, fix the platform, fix the hammock, re-rig everything, and the bugs
20:17ate me alive because I only had bug repellent on my arms and legs, and so I've got
20:23dozens and dozens of bites where the sun don't shine. I have been itching and itching and itching
20:29all night long. Usually the one or two mosquito bites don't do that much for me, but I probably
20:35have 100 mosquito bites if you total up all over my arms. I mean, my arms and my back are just like
20:41bumpy. Look at that. He's biting me through my shirt. Oh, man, they're just thick. Well, guys,
20:50I am not gonna hang out in this paradise for too long. I know Nathan got ate up a whole bunch too
20:55and he's been all itchy, so I'm gonna start cleaning up the camp and we're gonna pack up.
21:00I'm gonna find myself the biggest tub of Benadryl cream and we're just gonna just go crazy.
21:16Good morning, Tom. You get a lot of mosquito bites too?
21:20One mosquito in the tent last night that got all over me.
21:28Nathan, wake up. We're leaving, buddy. You need to put on a shirt. Well, Tommy, did you have a good time?
21:35Yeah. It was a little rough, but I'm glad we came and I'm glad you came with me, buddy.
21:41But, man, there's a lot of things I would do differently. Falling out of the hammock
21:45in the middle of the night in your underwear is really a bad idea.
21:53All right, guys, we're out of here. Oh, I gotta tell you, man, you looked like Prince Charming
21:58on a white stallion when you came in with that boat. Oh, you flatter me, Luke. Bye, mosquitoes.
22:04Watch out for those. Oh, man.
22:11Well, that was adventurous and I've been wanting to try that for a while,
22:16but I'm glad it's over. Man, I am so covered in bug bites. So, you got any bug bites on my back?
22:23Oh, my arm. Oh, look at that. Holy crap, that's a lot of bug bites.
22:30Oh, man, it feels good to be showered and in clean clothes again.
22:36Oh, we've had such a great time here with Cajun Experience. We've been staying here on their
22:40houseboat for five days. Also, if you guys want to see more from this trip, including all the
22:45frogging and catching catfish and just the whole experience itself, I'll put a link in the
22:50description to that video as well. But thanks for watching, guys. We hope you enjoyed this. Don't
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