Well, it happened again. We had a mild day and a low tide that wasn’t too early or too late. What’s even better is that it happened on a Saturday afternoon.
I wasn’t sure what, if any, video I’d be able to shoot, since I didn’t know just how cold I was going to get in the February mud.
When I arrived at the chosen spot, the tide was pretty low and there was lots of mud. There was even some new mud that had been deposited over the winter months.
I knew the water would be cold, so I prepared carefully. I stripped off all of my dry clothes and got a towel out of my dry bag, so I could get dried off and dressed as soon as I had washed and stripped off my muddy clothes. Then I got dressed in a cropped t-shirt and jean shorts and began setting up camera gear.
The video might be okay. I’ve reviewed some of it, and what I’ve seen isn’t bad. I also took some still photos with the DSLR (the images on this blog entry aren’t video frames, although I have some similar looking video). I couldn’t go all the way under in the spot I picked. It really looked promising, and the silt on top had a great “quicksand” look to it. It just wasn’t deep enough, and I wasn’t hell-bent on going completely under, anyway, given that the mud was rather frigid.
So, in a nutshell, I spent some time in mud that eventually got to the lower edge of my cropped t-shirt. It was nice to be back in the mud, again. I was excited to find some new mud, and I’m definitely looking forward to my next trip, which will probably be in a week or two, since the low tide will be too close to sunset after today and the moon is nearly full.
Does anyone know what happened to deepsinking at social parody – keep trying but the site seems to be gone.
I was told it had been down for a few days by another mudder. When I checked it, I first got a page that said the server was too busy, then I got a Godaddy courtesy page. As far as I know, it’s been off-line for 4 or 5 days. I have no idea why.
Hello Doug…
Three very enticing photos. I’m jealous that you can do some sinking in February…we should usually have enough rain and good weather for that…not this year…dry as can be still.
As to the social parody/deepsinking guys site. Yeah, it is gone, as is the whole social paody thing. A new site has been created, try this link:
http://deepsinkingguyz.yooco.org/home.htm
That link almost works. For people who aren’t logged in, they should start at http://deepsinkingguyz.yooco.org/
This is kind of bad news, but not too bad, as SocialParody was a terrible portal. I hated just about everything about that site. The bad part is that we’ll be starting over, again. I’m tempted just to tell everyone to come here for my videos, but I’m not sure my server can handle a lot more traffic. This site currently uses about 20GB/month.
Hi Doug
Nice looking pics
I see you’ve become more hirsuite over the winter months – part of a plan to keep the upper lip frost free!
Thanks for the info re the new DSG site, I’m all sorted on there again.
Glad Gamwam could sort out the new host so quickly
Hope you’re well and looking forward to your work this coming season I’m sure it’ll be up to the usual high standard
Hi, Andy. Thanks. I grew back my mustache so I could look my age.
Regarding the new DeepSinkingGuyz site, the party doesn’t start until I join, and I haven’t had a chance to join, yet. 😉
Hi Doug
I saw you hadn’t joined not a reluctance I hope
I think with or without moustache is fine and agree it does make you look older. If I had to expressany preference it would be clean shaven.
Hope to see you on the new DSG soon
Andy
Hello Andy. My reluctance is simply one of limited resources. I’m waiting until I have time to create a proper profile and upload some images. I’ve been getting pulled in 5 different directions, lately. The new DeepSinkingGuyz site will just have to wait.