The Swamp Buggy is a vehicle used to traverse boggy swamp terrain. Swamp buggies may be purpose built or vehicles modified to deal with the requirements to move around the swamp. All swamp buggies are able to move about on dry land, shallow mud, sand, and shallow water. Additionally they possess one or more of the following abilities:
- Propel itself through or over deep mud and water
- Drive through or over moderately dense vegetation
- Drive over rough terrain possibly including logs and stumps
- Float in water or mud
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Famous quotes containing the word swamp:
“We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller’s horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, “I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom.” “So it has,” answered the latter, “but you have not got half way to it yet.” So it is with the bogs and quicksands of society; but he is an old boy that knows it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)