Swim

In several areas with water, the player can swim. Swimming leaves the player more vulnerable to enemies and is seldom necessary to access items or locations, so it is rarely necessary to do. However, there are a couple areas where the player can safely swim for the fun and novelty of it, if they wish.
== Properties ==
The player can enter or leave the water through sloped banks, low ground at the water line, the Chicken Race pier in Lonesome Park, and the broken bridges in Sky Heights. While swimming, the player moves more slowly, which can make it harder to escape from enemies like Alligators and Egrets. They cannot dig, but they can crouch and crawl in the tall aquatic grass of Lappy Lake. They can bark or screech, but they cannot charge a bark or screech, which will make them flail around helplessly in the water for a couple seconds.
There is a plane dividing normal, walking geometry and swimming geometry. When players cross the plane by ground at the waterline, as opposed to jumping, there's a short animation where they "kick off" and go a bit of distance regardless of player input. The player can skip this animation and regain full control immediately by approaching the plane in a particular oblique way, at least in some situations, like returning to land in Lonesome Park. The player needs to meet some threshold of movement to cross the plane, whether walking or jumping: if they approach it in very small movements, they will get stuck at the water line as if there were an invisible wall.
== Locations ==
Swimming locations marked with a star * are required to complete the game.
* The ocean at Dolphin Coast
* The lake of Lappy Lake*
* The rivers of Whisker Woods
* The poison bog of Sky Heights*
* The Chicken Race pool of Lonesome Park
* The Fishing pond of Gongoro Peak
* The water in the Flag Race minigame courses
Curiously, the player cannot swim at Monolith Isle. There is much watery territory around the island, but it is treated as a land beach and not water, so the player just walks through it. Neither can they swim in the home of the Water Crystal, Bubble Cave–the cave's pools of water are too shallow.