{"id":5511,"date":"2021-09-07T14:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:16:07","slug":"labor-day-weekend-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/?p=5511","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day Weekend Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The weekend was crazy. I got an early start and tried to catch the low tide on Friday, Sept 3. I nearly missed it, but I managed to record one, short video before the tide water overtook the mud in which I was playing. That was the end of mudding for the first day. I got cleaned up, packed up my gear, and paddled about 2.5 miles to a campsite where I planned to spend the night.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the morning of the second day, the tide was coming in, so I paddled up river about 4 miles to harvest wild grapes from a muscadine grape vine that I had discovered on the river some years back. I didn’t get many grapes, but they were very sweet. I paddled back to the campsite and did a little exploring along the way. I got back to my campsite in time to make some lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After lunch, I packed up my camping gear and headed back out on the river to return to my mud hole. I arrived at my mud hole about an hour before low tide, so I had time to goof off and get everything ready; including the mud hole that I had left in disarray the day before. The first video I recorded went as well as could be expected. I wrapped up that video and got cleaned up in preparation for a second video. However, before I could get into the mud, I heard a couple of boats coming up the creek. They cut their motors very close to me, and I could hear them talking. I returned to where I stow my gear near the creek and saw that they had parked their boats immediately across the creek from where I clean up.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I had no idea how long they were going to stay, but it didn’t look like they were planning to move on, so I didn’t dare get muddy, again. While I waited for them to leave, the tide started coming back in. The incoming tide carried the boats and their people up stream far enough that I was able to slip out onto the creek without giving away my hiding place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, my mudding was cut short two days in a row, but I had a good time, and I paddled at total of 18.5 miles (about 31 km). It was nice to get out and spend a couple days in the wilderness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weekend was crazy. I got an early start and tried to catch the low tide on Friday, Sept 3. I nearly missed it, but I managed to record one, short video before the tide water overtook the mud in which I was playing. That was the end of mudding for the first day. 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-5511","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\/5511","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=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6527,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions\/6527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudlover.com\/theswamp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}