The old man was still searching in the reeds when the lights of a pickup materialized at the canal headworks and bounced wildly down the road.
No one else had signed up for the hunt, which meant a private journey chartered by Juan Aguilar, who wasted no time spotting a gator, asleep in the reeds mid-river.
Water running through the reeds in the canal beside them made soft gulping sounds as it swirled along.
On Tuesday we'll be gadding about at Toad Hole Cottage at How Hill and Thursday we'll be causing a commotion at the Whispering Reeds boatyard in Hickling Broad.
And in the third, a manhunt in a field of wild reeds becomes a hellish inferno that demands a reckoning.
Steering between stone weirs and hidden eddies, the boatman points out wildlife along the riverbanks: shelducks in the shallows, water buffalo in the grass, a grey heron hidden among the reeds.
The survey from lettings agent LSL, which owns Your Move and Reeds Rains, suggested that London had seen the biggest rent rises in England and Wales in the last year, rising by 6.6%, followed by a 6% rise in the West Midlands and a 4.3% increase in the North East of England.
Generally accompanied with light, airy strings or reeds, the piano will instantly call to mind previous works, but not in a way that feels samey or recycled.
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When my family and I toed our way through the Boundary Waters of the northern reaches of Minnesota, my brother and I found a stand of pitcher plants growing out of a moldering mat of reeds and moss, and because of this book, I had the theory of ecological succession right in the front of my brain.
They build a paper nest by chewing small amounts of wood from trees, reeds or garden fences and mix it with saliva to form a pulp which is added to the nest in thin strips.
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Inside, keep your body off the ice or ground (the Inuit put their sleeping blankets on top of a bed of sticks and reeds) and create heat-trapping "loft" (it's what keeps you warm in a sleeping bag) by layering a few small blankets or big trash bags, with leaves or crumpled newspapers in between.
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