I packed my gear and wriggled into a half-body wetsuit over a tight Speedo for a really late season trip into the swamp. The weather has been very mild (warm) for late December. It hasn’t even been cold at night. I split my trip into 3 short videos and I encoded them in low quality so I could post them here. If you really like something you see, I might be able to get you a copy of the full 1080p version.
In the first chapter of my vlog, you’ll see me wandering in my wetsuit and diving boots. I get bogged down a couple of times in the sticky mud. The boots make it a lot harder to extract my feet from the mud. This clip was encoded with lower quality than the others because it is the longest one.
In the next chapter, I stripped off my clothes and put on some tiny PVC briefs for a quick sink. Of course the mud was pretty cool (not icy cold), but that wasn’t the only reason for keeping the sink short. Going from cold mud to cold water (cleanup), I can get hypothermic and it can be pretty hard to get warmed up this time of year. Anyway, I got muddy and I got some closeups of my muddy PVC, for those of you who like that stuff.
In the final chapter, I get cleaned up and wriggle back into my Speedo and wetsuit.