Much Needed Trip into the Swamp

Today was a very nice day and I’ve been suffering from a pretty bad case of poison ivy for the past 4 or 5 days, so I decided it was time to soak in some salt marsh. Also, I hadn’t been out to the swamp in several weeks. I took what I needed, but not much more. I prepared to shoot some video, but I really wasn’t going out for that.

When I got out there, the tide wasn’t very low and it was already coming back in. I selected a spot that was close, so I wouldn’t waste precious time paddling and with enough elevation that it wouldn’t be underwater in 5 minutes. As it turned out, I chose well and had close to an hour of sinking time. I stayed in the mud until the tide water actually came up to greet me.

The paddle back out was easy, since I had lots of water to float my boat. I enjoyed a brief swim, got dressed, and headed back. My entire trip was around three hours.

I did shoot video while I was in the mud. I didn’t shoot any behind the scenes video. The first segment of video I shot got cut short because the camera battery went dead about 2 minutes after I started recording. Of course, I didn’t know that, so the camera didn’t get my entire sink. I did swap the battery and restart the recording once I realized the camera had turned itself off. My initial immersion, which I think was pretty great, was lost forever, but I still recorded a good deal of video. I was just goofing off, anyway. At the end of my sink, I set the camera to do still images and captured a bunch of high resolution still photos just before the tide overtook the mud I was in.

So, I have lots of still images. I have way more than I’m inclined to share here; especially since I can also capture stills from the 4k video, which are almost as good. For now, enjoy the images I uploaded for this post. There will be a video, eventually. Also, is there anyone interested in high resolution stills? The ones you see here are always reduced in size; especially the ones that started out as 16MP images.