[tsubaki]

A few years ago a friend of ours who is a shrimper dropped us on Wassaw Island for a 3 day deer hunt.
Sometime during the second day of the hunt he happened to be dragging between Wassaw and Ossabaw and caught a glimpse of something in the sound.
With his binoculars he could see it was a deer swimming the sound. An hour or so later he made a return trip just in time to scan the surf and watch him the deer make it to the edge of the dunes and sprall out on all fours and just lay there. That was a 3 1/2 mile swim, I guess so!
In the Savannah River at least 30 years ago my uncle had seen a nice buck swimming the river and decided to lassoe it (figuring easy prey). Just letting the deer pull him to the bank in the 12 aluminum boat (he thought) should have tired him out.
When the deer caught a foot hold, he actually drug him, the boat and everything in it up into the woods. I don't remember if the deer broke the rope or if my uncle cut it.