 It might be easier to picture if we could see a snake scaling a tree in real life, pun intended. Back in the Everglades, we're on our airboat, a small boat with a massive fan that blows us across the top of the shallow swampy water. We're careering through long grass, colliding with hundreds of green fluffy caterpillars along the way. Oh, you're really covered in bugs, eh? It's not like I was getting pelted with popcorn the whole time.