{"id":2821,"date":"2014-09-06T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2014-09-06T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T03:00:44","slug":"a-bad-day-in-the-mud-is-better-than-a-good-day-on-the-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Day in the Mud is Better than a Good Day on the Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2014-09-06_frame1\"<\/a>I hope I didn’t offend any golfers with my title! I went out kayaking today, around the time of low tide. I needed to do some maintenance on the creek, and I took my mudding gear, in case I could manage some time in the mud.<\/p>\n

The tide level did not bode well. If I did get in the mud, I wouldn’t have long to play. The tide was still going out, so I paddled to my most distant spot. When I arrived, the tide was as low as it was going to get. I picked a spot where I don’t generally play, but I knew had a precipitous drop off hidden in the mud.<\/p>\n

\"2014-09-06_frame3\"<\/a>It’s uncanny, really. I can step off the edge and go from knee deep mud to well over my head. What’s even weirder, is that I can reach out and feel a sharp, hard shelf next to me, that feels like it was cut at a right angle. When standing on the shelf, you’re standing on a solid, level surface. The drop off from there goes straight down.<\/p>\n

\"2014-09-06_frame4\"<\/a>Anyway, I knew I didn’t have much time, so I hurried to set up cameras and cut a crude path through the tall needle grass. With the cameras rolling, I took a walk down my path to a muddy tributary that would bring me out on the shelf. Once I reached the edge of that hidden shelf, I took that fateful step, and the bottom disappeared. Needless to say, I was never heard from, again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"2014-09-06_frame2\"<\/a>By the time the mud sucked me under, the tide was coming in pretty fast. I dragged myself out of the deep spot and set out across the unpredictable mud towards my boat. I no sooner arrived at the camera by my boat (the non-waterproof one), and it started raining. I quickly put that camera away, got the rest of my gear into the boat, and started walking my boat towards deeper water, where I could get cleaned up and change my clothes.<\/p>\n

Regarding the pictures on this post: The first one is from the story and the last three are the aftermath. I didn’t get any cleanup photos or video because the weather was threatening, and I needed to get back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope I didn’t offend any golfers with my title! I went out kayaking today, around the time of low tide. I needed to do some maintenance on the creek, and I took my mudding gear, in case I could manage some time in the mud. The tide level did not bode well. If I … 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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepmud","category-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","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=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}