This Evening, Doe Struggled to Stay Afloat as Swollen Mattole River Carried Her Downstream
About 4:45 this evening, Laura Lasseter took her camera out to film the swollen Mattole River for her kids. “It has come up 6-8 feet or more in the past few days,” she explained.
As she was capturing footage, a doe popped out of the water midstream. “She looks to have been underwater at the rapids when I [started] filming then she just popped up,” Lasseter told us.
“The timing to actually get that just still amazes me!” she exclaimed.
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Deer are amazingly strong swimmers.
They are. I’ve seen them swimming from Eureka to Indian Island in nearly freezing temperatures.
Hell of a way to get away from BIGFOOT
I hope she made it out of the river.
I think she did – the person making the video was saying Yay! Yay! toward the end.
She does. If you look closely, she is climbing the bank at the very end.
Wow, yes, what amazing timing! And still some people don’t believe in miracles… Thank you for sharing Laura. Good steady hands there too, I would have lost it. Poor girl, glad she got out, thanks for saying “yay”, it was hard to see at that point. Was that a yearling or this year’s fawn do you think?
Maybe a yearling. Way too early for this year’s fawn crop in May and June. A young fawn probably would not have made it.
🕯👍🏾👍🏾
That’s some footage! Thank you for sharing, wow!
Thank you for sharing!! Talk about right time right place. So glad you said “yay” or I wouldn’t have know she got out.
That deer’s gonna have a story to tell… what an adventure!
Cool video with a happy ending. However, being January and all, how do they know it is a doe? Most bucks have lost their antlers by now.
Because it wasn’t hollering obscenities? (That is supposed to be a joke, sort of)
a 2×2 was hanging out ignoring me with both antlers, just two weeks ago. If a buck with antlers went into the river there, he’d probably pop out without them!
The narration is so sweet. It was an amazing video. Thanks for posting.
glad she got out…I was worried about those long legs breaking on rocks :0{
🕯Know matter what its nature at best.
Sometimes deer cross streams on their own and other times to escape dogs that are chasing them. Tie your damn dogs up!
Yeah, loose dog packs really suck. One of the first homestead fantasies to go: wow, man, we can just turn the dog(s) loose man, no problem way out here. Our dog won’t hunt anyway.
Great video!
Good job deer.
When I was a kid in Marin up on Spanish Trail we would watch Deer swim across the bay from Tiburon to Angel Island …. they sometimes were in groups
Awesome video! Thank you.