my wife and i were camping at lake ouchita in arkansas last month when we saw something i have never seen before. from a distance it looked like a duck swimming in the water. it seemed a little too late in the year for one lone duck to be swimming around out there and i hadn't been tokin' on anything so it wasn't my imagination so i was really curious to know what it was. we both watched for a long time and when it was close enough we realized it was a deer and only its head was above the water. it swam about 400 yards of the lake and it looked like it finally got out on the opposite shore of a bay it was crossing. i was wondering if anyone else has seen a deer go for a swim like that.
lake quachita is near my home! i'm from fort smith arkansas. that's crazy that you saw a swimming dear though. never seen that before
Go to Google, select "Images" and then do a search on "swimming deer". You'll see some pictures of swimming deer that were probably taken by people just as amazed at it as you were .
I used to live in SE Oklahoma and we had a lake behind our house and the deer would come down out of the woods and graze with the cattle. Many times I've seen them swim across in a certain area. Pretty cool...and I just got back from Alaska and saw moose swim across the river, but the coolest is seeing bears just swimming in the lake for the pure pleasure of it.....got lots of video.
my dad used to quahog(thats hardshell claming for those of you outside of rhode island) and he said would see a few racks of antlers a year just go by his boat. a friend of mine asked me once how the deer got to the islands in narragansett bay. i told her they swam and she didnt believe me. they are good swimmers i guess. peace, bob
yeah, I've heard of them swimming. Over in naples, there's this area with all these little islands, and I've seen a few just covered in iguanas. They swam out there a while ago, and they're all living there now, I think.
I was in the san juans islands in washington, and looking over a narrow pass between two small islands. The current was very strong, and I saw a deer jump in and start swimming across. It looked like it was struggling in the current, but it made it to the other side. I could not beleive it, but, yeah, they can swim
While crossing the bridge on the Missouri River between Iowa and Nebraska, a friend and I saw something smimming down the middle of the river. It was far away and looked like a deer but we found it hard to beleive a deer would be swimming in the river, so we quickly drove to the bank to check it out. Sure enough, it was a deer. God only knows what the hell it was doing swimming down the river in that kind of current. It ended up going up on the shore straight across the river from us. That deers got more balls than I do.
