I would like to thank you Mr Jerry Skinnerfor your videos about Mississippi no matter what the content is I love it I'm I'm from Mississippi from Scott county Forest Mississippi to be exact and I live in Chicago and I miss home so much thank you very much sir 💯💓💓
Canadian here. I've only been as far South as Kansas City. Thank you for posting the tour. The ancient cypress are certainly impressive and, if you're lucky, they just might be home to an ivory-bill!
What a fun trip you just took me on! Thank you. What are the pointy woody things sticking out of the water everywhere? Those trees are no majestic . I love them 😍
Good morning, dear Jerry and the misses. It's lovely to take another historic walk with you two. Thank you for sharing your vacations with us. God bless you two. I love you. Big hugs, Linda Lee
Very beautiful I love nature and I certainly appreciated this video. By the way Jerry mosquitoes don't bite me either guess they don't like our blood type. Heck they don't even come neat me. Thank you for a nice Sunday walk stay safe.
Amazing video. Never seen anything like that in my life. That 1000 year old tree is amazing. Trees are so beautiful I hate when they are cut down. Thank you!
looked at the place on Google maps it looks about 30-40 miles away from the Mississppi river, but on google maps satellite view looks like a bunch of river arms where sky lake is, is that part of the Missippi river flood plain? that far away? Sky Lake
Really interesting video. Thanks for sharing this journey and for your troubles with the shoes. It was especially nice for me to see this because I don't think I will ever set foot in swamp country.
Thank you Mr. Skinner. I am fixin to visit Mississippi in a few weeks and I'm looking for different things to see. I'm gonna be along the coast but I imagine I could drive north if something was nice enough to go and do. Your videos sure give a lot of good ideas for things to think about seeing.
i know this an old video mr skinner but great i live down here in florida and the cypress heads all around my aera lots of them were cut back when the rail roads were coming throughwalking around my swamps i found many cut piecesone stump 10 ft in circumferance this is a pretty swamp
This is another place I would like to go. But there again it is to far from Wisconsin. But maybe someday I will get there. I'm glad you brought this to us on our televisions. That's better then not knowing about it. Thanks Jerry, and God bless.
Thanks for your informative videos. When I was young, about 65 years ago, helped build a large cattle feed lot out of cypress. It was the toughest wood I ever saw and hard to nail. The Nebraska sand hills cattle, which were wilder than jack rabbits, would bounce right off of and otherwise a cedar fence they would tear right down. Knew it was an amazing wood but didn't know the beauty and how long it lived-truly a wonder.
Check out Cathedral Forest in northern West Virginia. It's one of the last virgin forests in that state. It's full of ancient Canadian Hemlocks skirted with moss and fern. Truly magnificent.
As someone from the dry west, this place looks like a different planet! LOL. Kinda eerie, I can see where the haunted swamp stories come from. Not sure if I like swamps or not! Seriously, though, what a peaceful, beautiful spot. Thanks, Jerry.
cavecookie1 lol, yep I was relocated as a child and grew up in an area close to Cypress Trees and - later I lived in Las Vegas for nearly 20 years. This planet offers the most diverse beauty...
Being from Louisiana, we love our cypress too! I grew up in a house made of cypress. It will stand for hundreds of years, as long as it doesn't catch afire. VERY hard wood tree.
Thank goodness these ancient Cypress trees were saved. They are obviously a very important part of the ecosystem. It's hard to believe that many were destroyed just to clear land.
Thank you, just think in Revelations it speaks about people living for a thousand years and these trees have already don that. The Cypress is a cousin to the Redwoods in Cal. Thanks again, Jerry
Jerry Skinner Have you traveled up to Tennessee to visit Reelfoot Lake? A beautiful Cypriss area and intriguing folklore. Worth your checking into, located just off the Mississippi in NW Tennessee, Lake County. 80 +/- miles North of Memphis. The Cypress appear to me, to be a cousin of the Sequoias Trees in California.
great video! Note, if you want to see a place that looks truely prehistoric, go into the woods of "Old River" wildlife management area in Pearl River County, MS just out of Poplarville and Bogalusa, LA. It is actually spooky strange in those cypress swamps.
EARTH ANGEL. IT IS AMAZING THAT ALL THESE TREES WEREN'T CUT DOWN IN THE PAST FOR BUILDING MORE HOUSES AT THAT TIME. THEN THERE WOULD BE NONE OF THESE BEAUTIES. LEFT FOR US TO ADMIRE!😇😎👍🤗
Oh wow, how lovely it is! I would love to visit there with my children sometime. We live in Las Vegas, they have never seen anything like that, they would really enjoy it. Thank you so much for sharing.
I never knew about this when I was working in Mississippi. Beautiful and at night I sure you can walk on the bridge and shine a flash light in the water and see all the alligator eyes. We used to do that when we lived in Florida and it was scary knowing they where a few feet away from you. Could not see them in the day most of the time but, could a night.
Also true is mosquitos generally breed in temporary pools of water. In permanent pools predatory insects and fish that eat mosquito larvae will establish themselves and control mosquito populations.
Not all conifers, some of the most hellish mosquito infestations I've had to endure have been in conifer forests. You're sure right about cypress though. Cedars, cypresses and some related shrubs sure seem to repel mosquitos.
The largest tree which was a cypress ever found East of the Mississippi was near Sharon Tn which is about 40 miles North of I 40 from Jackson Tn. I had heard about it when I was a kid 60 years ago and my dad, brother and I found it. It was not marked and many people in the area had never seen it. It was estimated to be 2000 years old. At head high it was 68 feet in circumference and hollow. It was large enough for a horse and buggy to drive inside and turn around. In the last 40 years it fell over and now there is just a marker there. The one you show is large but much smaller than the one in TN. The first time I saw it I could walk inside-early fifties and 20 years later you could only get about 50 from it. They are majestic.
@Jerry Skinner is there any way you could do a video on the not so well known but notorious prohibition era gangster named Charlie Birger from Southern Illinois. I was born and raised in Southern Illinois and I grew up hearing stories of him. I’ve did a lot of research on him and I’d really love it if you did as well and make him more well known
Thanks for doing this video, Jerry. I've never thought of a swamp as being beautiful, so I've learned something new today. I just can't imagine how those cypress trees can live that long. Amazing -- Diane.
Hearing Jerry talk is like listening to an old friend.
Mr Jerry I'm going back through all your old videos. Still just as great as always Sir
Thank you CW, but hope we have improved a little along the way. Jerry
I would like to thank you Mr Jerry Skinnerfor your videos about Mississippi no matter what the content is I love it I'm I'm from Mississippi from Scott county Forest Mississippi to be exact and I live in Chicago and I miss home so much thank you very much sir 💯💓💓
Dorothy, missing Mississippi is like being love sick. Jerry
Another amazing video enjoyed very much
Gorgeous trees!❤
Wonderful video.
This swamp is stunning.
Nice trip, thanks.
thats pretty, I like how the walkway was built so high so you can see a lot of the swampy area
Canadian here. I've only been as far South as Kansas City. Thank you for posting the tour.
The ancient cypress are certainly impressive and, if you're lucky, they just might be home to an ivory-bill!
So grateful for your video. So nice
I am about 7yrs. late watching this, buy it does not make it any less interesting. What a beautiful place.
Love it is so beautiful
Never knew these trees existed, thanks for this
You have seen some amazing places
Amazing and peaceful.
Makes me feel like I’m looking at ancient artifacts.
Thanks for sharing❣️
What a fun trip you just took me on! Thank you. What are the pointy woody things sticking out of the water everywhere? Those trees are no majestic . I love them 😍
Cypress knees are the roots that are sticking up.
Thanks for the tour.🌲🌳🌿🌱
Jerry that swamp and trees are very nice... if you want some beautiful country to film go to northern Minnesota.. in the summer......
Good morning, dear Jerry and the misses. It's lovely to take another historic walk with you two. Thank you for sharing your vacations with us. God bless you two. I love you. Big hugs, Linda Lee
Thank you Linda we will save you a place on our next trip ok. Jerry
Thank you Jerry for your beautiful and invaluble programs.
Great video Mr. JERRY
Ever make it up to northwest Montana, you and the Mrs may like to check out the Ross Creek cedars.
What beautiful footage. Reminds me of the poem by Joyce Kilmer. "I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree..." Thank you sharing!
I love swamps
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Lisa. Jerry
Captions are available for those who don't speak "Southern". ☺️😸
Is it true wood eating bugs do not like cypress?
Thanks for the awesome video. Just one tip from a fellow tree lover to another- a bald cypress is actually not a cypress tree.
I didn’t know this was here in Mississippi.
Such a beautiful place, and your hard work allowed us to see something we may never have gotten to. thank you and God bless.
Very beautiful I love nature and I certainly appreciated this video. By the way Jerry mosquitoes don't bite me either guess they don't like our blood type. Heck they don't even come neat me. Thank you for a nice Sunday walk stay safe.
Amazing video. Never seen anything like that in my life. That 1000 year old tree is amazing. Trees are so beautiful I hate when they are cut down. Thank you!
looked at the place on Google maps it looks about 30-40 miles away from the Mississppi river, but on google maps satellite view looks like a bunch of river arms where sky lake is, is that part of the Missippi river flood plain? that far away? Sky Lake
Gorgeous, thank you; I add it to the list! A lovely experience, even to watch.
Seems like a special place indeed. Those bird sounds at the end--whatever kind it was--was mesmerizing.
Is the walkway made of cypress?
Wondering that also
I REALLY ENJOY THESE VIDEOS, YOU REALLY EXPLAIN EVERYTHING. THANKS. 👍
Really interesting video. Thanks for sharing this journey and for your troubles with the shoes. It was especially nice for me to see this because I don't think I will ever set foot in swamp country.
Thank you Susan for going along. Jerry
Thank you Mr. Skinner. I am fixin to visit Mississippi in a few weeks and I'm looking for different things to see. I'm gonna be along the coast but I imagine I could drive north if something was nice enough to go and do. Your videos sure give a lot of good ideas for things to think about seeing.
+Eugene Porter Thank you Eugene, i hope you enjoy your trip. Jerry
Man at the lost history we will never know if only these trees could talk
i know this an old video mr skinner but great i live down here in florida and the cypress heads all around my aera lots of them were cut back when the rail roads were coming throughwalking around my swamps i found many cut piecesone stump 10 ft in circumferance this is a pretty swamp
Thank you Rickys Half. Jerry
There's a bunch of them trees here big one Portia arkansas but we have skeeters and they bite
Hi Jerry, always enjoy your videos and this one was great. PS I think your accent is lovely. Thanks for the videos.
This is another place I would like to go. But there again it is to far from Wisconsin. But maybe someday I will get there. I'm glad you brought this to us on our televisions. That's better then not knowing about it. Thanks Jerry, and God bless.
That green on the water is called duck weed. We have it on Reelfoot Lake in NW Tennessee.
Thanks for your informative videos. When I was young, about 65 years ago, helped build a large cattle feed lot out of cypress. It was the toughest wood I ever saw and hard to nail. The Nebraska sand hills cattle, which were wilder than jack rabbits, would bounce right off of and otherwise a cedar fence they would tear right down. Knew it was an amazing wood but didn't know the beauty and how long it lived-truly a wonder.
"There's everything in this swamp, including alligators!..." Reason why not a soul is there but y'all 😂
Love your work. Thanks. I live in Mississippi in the Delta. It is pronounced Bell-zone-ah, by the way. Thanks again for all of your work.
Check out Cathedral Forest in northern West Virginia. It's one of the last virgin forests in that state. It's full of ancient Canadian Hemlocks skirted with moss and fern. Truly magnificent.
As someone from the dry west, this place looks like a different planet! LOL. Kinda eerie, I can see where the haunted swamp stories come from. Not sure if I like swamps or not! Seriously, though, what a peaceful, beautiful spot. Thanks, Jerry.
cavecookie1
lol, yep
I was relocated as a child and grew up in an area close to Cypress Trees and - later I lived in Las Vegas for nearly 20 years.
This planet offers the most diverse beauty...
Nothing like being there in person. It's beautiful!
Being from Louisiana, we love our cypress too! I grew up in a house made of cypress. It will stand for hundreds of years, as long as it doesn't catch afire. VERY hard wood tree.
I'm in Mississippi. I've got a porch swing made of Cypress. Had it for 40 yrs. Still strong as ever. Chains give way first.
Thank goodness these ancient Cypress trees were saved. They are obviously a very important part of the ecosystem. It's hard to believe that many were destroyed just to clear land.
Any water moccasins in that water?
Oh Yeah Bring your saw! LOL
There is also a huge cypress in Delta National Forest. It has a plaque and it's very old!
Thank you, just think in Revelations it speaks about people living for a thousand years and these trees have already don that. The Cypress is a cousin to the Redwoods in Cal. Thanks again, Jerry
Jerry Skinner
Have you traveled up to Tennessee to visit Reelfoot Lake?
A beautiful Cypriss area and intriguing folklore.
Worth your checking into, located just off the Mississippi in NW Tennessee, Lake County.
80 +/- miles North of Memphis.
The Cypress appear to me, to be a cousin of the Sequoias Trees in California.
@@bethbartlett5692
I know that this is an old comment but I grew up near Dyersburg and you are right.
Reelfoot Lake is beautiful!
great video! Note, if you want to see a place that looks truely prehistoric, go into the woods of "Old River" wildlife management area in Pearl River County, MS just out of Poplarville and Bogalusa, LA. It is actually spooky strange in those cypress swamps.
Locally it is pronounced "bell-ZONA"
Jerry, do a video on the petrified forest just north of Jackson, Mississippi.
EARTH ANGEL. IT IS AMAZING THAT ALL THESE TREES WEREN'T CUT DOWN IN THE PAST FOR BUILDING MORE HOUSES AT THAT TIME. THEN THERE WOULD BE NONE OF THESE BEAUTIES. LEFT FOR US TO ADMIRE!😇😎👍🤗
I would love to have heard about how the walkway was built. I don't see why it doesn't sink. Wonderful presentation though!
My buddy and I just paddled this area, water was all the way up above the boardwalk post, I did a video, check it out.
Oh wow, how lovely it is! I would love to visit there with my children sometime. We live in Las Vegas, they have never seen anything like that, they would really enjoy it. Thank you so much for sharing.
+Lauren Thompson Thank you Lauren for watching it. Jerry
I was born in greenwood and raised on the 6 mile lake in money Mississippi. I loved it an miss it. Still got family living on the lake
I loved watching this! So interesting!
I never knew about this when I was working in Mississippi. Beautiful and at night I sure you can walk on the bridge and shine a flash light in the water and see all the alligator eyes. We used to do that when we lived in Florida and it was scary knowing they where a few feet away from you. Could not see them in the day most of the time but, could a night.
Mosquitoes don't like cypress trees. Conifers are a great mosquito repellent.
Also true is mosquitos generally breed in temporary pools of water.
In permanent pools predatory insects and fish that eat mosquito larvae will establish themselves
and control mosquito populations.
Not all conifers, some of the most hellish mosquito infestations I've had to endure have been in conifer forests. You're sure right about cypress though. Cedars, cypresses and some related shrubs sure seem to repel mosquitos.
The largest tree which was a cypress ever found East of the Mississippi was near Sharon Tn which is about 40 miles North of I 40 from Jackson Tn. I had heard about it when I was a kid 60 years ago and my dad, brother and I found it. It was not marked and many people in the area had never seen it. It was estimated to be 2000 years old. At head high it was 68 feet in circumference and hollow. It was large enough for a horse and buggy to drive inside and turn around. In the last 40 years it fell over and now there is just a marker there. The one you show is large but much smaller than the one in TN. The first time I saw it I could walk inside-early fifties and 20 years later you could only get about 50 from it. They are majestic.
It’s pronounced “Bell-zonuh”
Thank you for posting these wonderful historical videos. They are a delight to watch!
@Jerry Skinner is there any way you could do a video on the not so well known but notorious prohibition era gangster named Charlie Birger from Southern Illinois. I was born and raised in Southern Illinois and I grew up hearing stories of him. I’ve did a lot of research on him and I’d really love it if you did as well and make him more well known
Taken me on a journey with this video, Mr Skinner. Thank you for that.
Hard to tell just how big they are, nothing next to them to reference size.
Thanks for doing this video, Jerry. I've never thought of a swamp as being beautiful, so I've learned something new today. I just can't imagine how those cypress trees can live that long. Amazing -- Diane.
BELZONI/ WITH AN (A)ON END OF PRONUNCIATION . CATFISH CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.
I want a who was the real jerry skinner video
The floor in my house and verandah is all. Cypress, white ants won't touch it, in Australia white ants can destroy a wood frame house.
Them Tree's been there since the Spanish Inquisition.
Bring your saw....You're a riot, Jerry
Vanessa
I lwoob like to see it
Nice one J
How many of those trees did it take to make the walkway? HAHAHA
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Morbid I know but.......... I wonder how many bodies have been thrown in this swamp?
Well at least they'd feed the trees and critters!