"If the water is shallow, it will take less time to wade or jump each area than it will to raft around each minor islands. Rafts are actually slow and get caught up on every little stump and protrusion. If the water is not shallow, jumping and swimming across will still be faster than a raft. Course, jumping could result in Kortauhk jumping neck deep into quicksand too." Sheeva says.
"The only advantages of a raft are that we probably will not get as wet, and smaller creatures in the water won't attack us. Big creatures will attack us even on a raft. But rafts are slow and cumbersome to maneuver without open water. A canoe would be better and even that would be tough to manage here."
Sheeva thinks for a second.
"In fact, the best idea is to probably rope ourselves together at the waist and just slog through this stuff, using long sticks to probe in front of us. That would be the fastest. But I do want to find out how deep this is before we decide on that."
"The only advantages of a raft are that we probably will not get as wet, and smaller creatures in the water won't attack us. Big creatures will attack us even on a raft. But rafts are slow and cumbersome to maneuver without open water. A canoe would be better and even that would be tough to manage here."
Sheeva thinks for a second.
"In fact, the best idea is to probably rope ourselves together at the waist and just slog through this stuff, using long sticks to probe in front of us. That would be the fastest. But I do want to find out how deep this is before we decide on that."