And shoot these ducks so that they would make sure that they had a big enough supply. >> whoa. >> there's beautiful paintings in venetian artists depicting these scenes in the lagoon. they would serve these ducks in any kind of -- you know, there was duck fricasse, roast duck, all sorts of duck. >> oh, my god. >> yeah. >> to reach the doge's happy hunting ground you head west out of the city about 20 miles as the duck flies. it is an environment hard to describe as mainland. the solid-to-liquid ratio shifts and becomes a vast wetland. i'm absolutely frozen. okay. for this kind of hunt you have...