{"id":5341,"date":"2021-06-08T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2021-06-08T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T00:18:08","slug":"a-short-visit-to-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5341","title":{"rendered":"A Short Visit to the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_leaving-mud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_leaving-mud-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_leaving-mud-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_leaving-mud-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_leaving-mud-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_leaving-mud-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_leaving-mud.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I got a late start, today. I think the tide was at its lowest point around 16:45 and I arrived just after 17:00. I had time to do one sink before the tide was coming in fast. I left home just before 17:00 and returned home just before 19:00. That has to be some kind of round-trip record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_sink-begin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_sink-begin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_sink-begin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_sink-begin-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_sink-begin-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_sink-begin-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_sink-begin.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I shot a very straight-forward, and kind of short quick-mud video. Thanks to my new action-cam, I also got some behind the scenes video that I&#8217;ll probably post here when I get something edited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_after-swim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_after-swim-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_after-swim-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_after-swim-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_after-swim-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_after-swim-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_after-swim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the mean time, I have thrown in an image of me when I was leaving the sinking hole (top left), and one of me just starting my sink (top right), coming out of the water after a brief swim (left of this text), and finally, a shot after I was clean and dressed to drive home (bottom right).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_in-jeans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_in-jeans-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_in-jeans-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_in-jeans-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_in-jeans-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_in-jeans-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-06-08_in-jeans.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these images came from the action-cam video. I wish I could just take all you guys out there with me, or have someone film a trip from beginning to end, while shadowing me to get every bit of the action, but those things aren&#8217;t likely to happen, so my waterproof little action-cam is the next best thing. I try to remember to set it up to capture the interesting bits. This has actually been a pretty good year for mudding, so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a late start, today. I think the tide was at its lowest point around 16:45 and I arrived just after 17:00. I had time to do one sink before the tide was coming in fast. I left home just before 17:00 and returned home just before 19:00. That has to be some kind &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[3,9,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepmud","category-mudding","category-production-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","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=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}