{"id":2794,"date":"2014-08-22T20:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T00:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2014-08-22T20:08:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T00:08:54","slug":"a-friday-afternoon-in-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"A Friday Afternoon in the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2014-08-22_frame3\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"2014-08-22_frame6\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

\"2014-08-22_frameA\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

I grabbed a few stills from the GoPro video. The ones that are not in this post will be in my 2014 gallery<\/a>. The video clip is uploading to my DropBox, Gary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepmud","category-mudding","category-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}