Some down some up
A good friend of mine had a not so good day yesterday. He did a good job, in a difficult situation. The ground is terribly dry and firm here right now, and the grass there is not really maintained as a landing area, so it could not have been a very smooth landing no matter how well he executed it.
I had this type of failure 25 years ago in a 185 amphib, though I had the ice of a frozen lake to land on, so it was a non event for me. Ironically, I was flying the same plane in which I had been a passenger 15 years before that, when the same thing happened.