The game is basically just like normal soccer, but it's played on a wet, marshy swamp.
Central on Bayou Perot, in a marshy area near where Lafourche and Jefferson parishes meet, about 30 miles south of New Orleans.
Victory Base Complex, the headquarters of Multi-National Force-Iraq, lies to the west of Baghdad on an eroded wasteland crossed by marshy canals.
Men and women lugging sacks of amphetamines and other contraband ford the shallow, marshy river to Thailand in daylight as scowling lookouts keep watch.
Half of the city's 282 square miles are too hilly or marshy to build on, says Liliane Mupende Uwanziga, Kigali's director of urban planning.
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The three-mile stretch between the towns of Tresaith and Llangrannog can be slow going, due to several steep climbs and some uneven and marshy ground.
But the marshy, urban land is not their natural habitat, and it exposes them to frequent health problems, especially eye and feet infections, cuts and parasites.
Jindal said the state has asked for 55, 000 feet of booms to keep oil away from the marshy, environmentally delicate coast, which is rich in shellfish and wildlife.
What should be a shallow, marshy environment, complete with a complex set of channels, islands and sand bars is becoming a flat, scoured bay subject to the full force of the Adriatic.
Battersea Park evolved from marshy Battersea Fields where, in 1829, Waterloo hero the Duke of Wellington fought a duel (a popular pastime in London's parks), and is where Britain's first asparagus was grown.
Even better, Lineham Creek is technically onshore located in the marshy coastal wetlands of the Rockefeller Preserve, a 76, 000-acre wildlife refuge that the Rockefeller Family gave to the state of Louisiana.
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Wedged on a narrow spit of land near the marshy flatlands of the Rio de la Plata, the abandoned docklands had no streets, a few gutted buildings and "chest-high grass, " Austin Hearst, an early investor, remembers.
In a press conference that capped a long and tiring day of searching for evidence in the marshy Everglades, Francis also said that family members would be granted their request to visit the crash site Wednesday.
The Irish Bog Snorkelling Championship takes place in the wonderful marshy boglands of Castleblayney, County Monaghan and you would be hard pressed to find a muddier, murkier and less inviting track in any other racing event.
On the distant Kemah bridge, where the lake merged into Galveston Bay, a procession of cars glinted in the sun, and a smallish flock of pink spoonbills meandered in from the opposite shore, heading past the Hilton toward the marshy channels and bayous beyond Bay Area Boulevard.
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