I’ve been pretty busy since my last blog entry. I’m trying to keep up with work while building a new boat trailer and spending some time on the water to stay sane. I went out on June 12 with Stahr to shoot some video of her introduction to the swamp. In order to convince her that it was safe to make a flying leap into the mud, I dove in head first. We had a nice day for mudding, and she had a pretty good time. She didn’t do anything crazy, but she did manage to get pretty muddy.
Stahr also got some video of me, while I was setting up to shoot her. Is it just me, or do these wide screen swamp photos look really scenic? I think I want to be Crocodile Dundee when I grow up.
Today (June 16), I went back to the bamboo frame I built on my last trip. I shot some video on my way out there, and I shot some when I was cleaning up, after getting me, my camera gear, and my boat really messy. On my way out, I just stopped to take a dip and cool off in the creek. Although our weather is like July, the creek water is still quite refreshing. By the end of July, the water will be too warm to be effective at cooling me down.
By the time I arrived at my bamboo, I had had a short swim, and sank in mud up to my chest, while getting my boat to the mud hole. I was a mess before I even got started, and it went downhill from there. I did some bondage. I used my weight to pull me down, and I had my breathing tube so I could stay under longer. As it turned out, the sun was not in a good spot to shoot the video I wanted, so I horsed around for a while, got some less than ideal video, and made a mess of everything. I shot some point-of-view video while hanging from the bamboo by my genitals. It seemed like a nice perspective.
I had a rather lengthy cleanup, but I was in no hurry, because the sun was about an hour from setting and it was quite lovely on the creek.
I won’t be back out for a while. We just had a new moon. I won’t be home tomorrow, and after that, the daylight low tides will be in the early morning for a few days and they won’t be very good tides. The good ones will be at night. However, in a week, I’ll probably be back out there.