It is not unusual to have to ford a stream. In a rainy spring this can be hard. This one was pretty easy, the water was only 2-3 inches deep and we just walked through and counted on the waterproofing. Sometimes you have to remove your boots. That has not happened to us. The 40 km we skipped had some stream fording and that was one reason we skipped it, another reason was the walking on busy roads.