{"id":5393,"date":"2021-07-06T21:49:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T01:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2021-07-06T21:49:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T01:49:37","slug":"much-needed-trip-into-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5393","title":{"rendered":"Much Needed Trip into the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Still image, just before I went to clean up.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About to step out of my boat<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before I left the house; clearly in need of an adventure<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still frame from the video. The video quality was unusually good.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … 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":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepmud","category-inversion","category-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393","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=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}