On
Sunday, August 26'th, I had my
7'th outing of the season, where the weather didn't get quite as nice as I had wanted, with it being nice enough for a sink, but marginal for a submergence, that is, if the sun only stayed out from behind the clouds!

I don't normally go on weekends, so it must have been because some poorer weather was going to move in afterwards (can't remember for sure).
Usually, I would first have a videoed sink into mud that hadn't been disturbed since my last outing, which therefore had a stiffer surface that broke up and cracked with my struggling, and then an off-camera sink after that, mushing up the mud, and then sinking off camera again in the mushed up mud. But this time, I switched things around. I chose to have the off-camera sink first, so that I could mush up the stiffer surface in order to get it as gooey as the stuff underneath, which also increased its quivering/quaking action. I then had the videoed sink in the mushed up mud, which looked excellent, quivering like a bowl full of jelly!
But, because of the clouds cutting off/weakening the direct heat from the sun, which would have brought conditions up above the marginal point, I never submerged for my sinks.

If I hadn't had the first sink which cooled me down initially, then it might have been possible for a submergence for the second sink, since things did warm up slightly more since the first sink, but I really wanted to first set things up to have a boggy surface that had more jiggling/heaving/quivering/quaking action, not to mention that wonderful doughy texture!
However, I put on quite a show struggling in the bottomless, quivering mud, sinking deeper and deeper, struggling to get out, before finally managing to rescue myself, demonstrating how difficult it is to escape thick, bottomless mud without anything solid within reach, if you don't know the proper technique for doing so. Looking at the video while sitting nice and warm in front of the computer, I reeeeeeeeally wish I could have gone under that wonderful stuff back then, but at the time I sunk there, the sun going behind the clouds just made conditions just short of marginal for doing so.

Just imagine sinking in that stuff on a warmer day!

Enjoy the show!
Part 1: A hiker enjoying the great outdoors stumbles into some mud, tries to slog through it to the other side, only to get stuck in the middle, and sink deeper and deeper! He tries repeatedly to get out, but keeps on failing as the quivering (and boy, is it quivering!), sucking morass rises up to his chest! Will he escape?

Part 2: Even though he is getting exhausted from all the struggling, he is determined not to fall victim to the bottomless pulsating quagmire. So, he seriously works on escaping, finally managing to work himself as high as he could before laying down on his stomach. Worn out, he tries to get the strength to pull, wiggle, squirm, wiggle, squirm, and pull his way through the doughy, gripping, gelatinous, undulating ooze until he can grab onto solid ground. Then, he can finally get the upper hand on breaking the gulping bog's deadly grip on his lower body, and finally escape this thick, quivering, boggy deathtrap!
