Not a peaceful walk

For some reason I am now calling my dog Kai Pie when I call her. I am trying to do anything to sound upbeat so that she will listen to me. This week my husband was off work and we have been doing lots of things, but I still try to get a walk in with Kai, so we went to a place that I have seen near a library that has a boardwalk over a swamp like area. My husband wanted to try out his camera and I thought it would be a good place to walk the dog, as I usually never see other people on this walkway. Well there were a lot of new and unusual smells for this dog of mine and she just wanted to explore but we were on a boardwalk. Now it was not far down and maybe you are already getting a sense of what I am going to say, but I will tell the saga anyway. We had walked all the way to the other end of the board walk when Kai started looking over the edge and I had a feeling she was going to jump in. So I moved to the middle of the walkway. She did this several times look over the edge, and I managed to pull her back. The last time she did not hesitate, she just jumped. All I could think was I hope it is to cold for reptiles. She has never jumped in anything that remotely looked like water. The horrible thing is that though the boardwalk is not that far off the ground it was high enough for her to crawl under which I tried very hard to not let that happen. My husband tried to pull her up but she was being a brat and ducking his attempts. I had to be a brute, I could not pull her up without choking her, so I looked for a place that she would be forced to walk back up on the walkway, this was behind us so I pulled her through the muck and weeds and brought her back to the boardwalk, shortened her leash and stayed away from the edge. We finally made it back to the place we started where my husband promptly fell which had Kai run back to him to help him up. I forgave her, checked for ticks and realized I would never take her to Yellowstone National Park. I had heard horror stories about people taking their dogs there only to have them jump into the hot water. I now think Kai would do this no matter how bad the water smelled. I am going to have to think about our walking places, it maybe that she has to be content with around the neighborhood.