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.























