It was a nice day to visit the swamp, even if the tides are not cooperative this time of year. Today was nothing like my last visit, but I found some mud to play in, for a few minutes.
I first visited the peat swamp because I could see, on arrival, that the tide wasn’t going to go out far. I figured the woods with it’s slightly higher elevation would be the best bet. When I got there, I found a lot of water, so I pushed some mud around to make it drain better, and I left.
The tide was still going out, so I paddled over to another spot to explore a little. I found a similar situation at the second spot. There was a puddle of water where I would normally sink. For those who don’t know, a body leaves a depression in the mud after it is extracted. Every so often, I push some mud back into the spot from surrounding areas. That is what I did, today. I used my kayak paddle to shovel mud into the depression to displace the water.
I had no sooner finished landscaping the mud and the tide was showing signs of reversing. I figured I’d have 10-15 minutes before everything was underwater, so I planned to go home without sinking. I figured I’d pose for a couple more video clips before I left, which led me to one of my favorite immersion spots. I could see the tide rising, but it would only take 5 minutes to go under. I really didn’t want to have to get completely covered in mud for a 5 minute sink, but I thought about GamWam and I decided I’d record a quick immersion, just for him.
GamWam always tells me he wants my raw, unedited video, so this time, he’s going to get what he asked for. I shot everything today on the GoPro, because it wasn’t worth getting out more camera equipment.
I grabbed a few stills from the GoPro video. The ones that are not in this post will be in my 2014 gallery. The video clip is uploading to my DropBox, Gary.
Hello Doug…
Shifting through many old VHS tapes, some of which needed to be discarded, I came across two tapes you sent me in the early 2000s…”Mudlover.com presents “Pure Mud”, 2002 and “Mudlover Movie Collection #1–1996 through 2001”. Watching you sink outta’ sight in the neophrin Body glove suit was a great turn on…that was on the 2002 tape. Then, on the Collection tape there was the Mosquito Catcher clip…great sink on that one too. I think I got these tapes before I ever visited you for the first time…or am I not remember correctly. Anyway some great past memories came floating up.
Some of those old sinks were classic. Those were the days of exploration. I never quite knew what I’d get into, or how the video would come out. I don’t miss that crappy old VHS camera, though.
The quality of those videos was incredibly good…and you continue to maintain that high level of quality with even better equipment. Your second clip in the red square cut was much fun to watch.