Thanks for the encouraging responses!
On
Friday, August 9'th, I had my
third outing of the season, where I returned to my
Crescent Road pond for the
second time this season. Just as I had hoped, the two week wait resulted in a definite drop in the water levels, with my sinking spot, which got submerged after disturbing it back on July 26'th, being exposed again!

There was still some water on the east side, and a lot of the mud was still quite soggy on top, but it was way better than I had last seen it!

I had a nice dramatic sink and escape there in front of the camera, and then afterwards, off-camera, spent a while submerged with swim goggles and a breathing hose, then just brief submergences without the hose, then lingering with my mouth exposed, then my face exposed, and then crawling over the entire area. This time, unlike last time, all surface water disappeared with the activity, leaving the entire bog with hardly any water on top, quite a difference from how I had left the bog last time!

Enjoy the videos!
A hiker is walking through a meadow, enjoying the great outdoors. Suddenly, he encounters a bear (offscreen) and quickly runs away from it, only to fall victim to another danger!

Here is a patch of disturbed mud, which doesn't look too threatening.

But, it moves and bubbles, revealing that perhaps it is not so innocent after all!

It has swallowed a 6' 2" man, who finally resurfaces to gasp for air, and then relaxes in the nice, cushiony quagmire, before getting sucked under again, with more bubbles erupting out of the batterlike ooze. The best place
IN earth!

A patch of muddy ground heaves and pulsates like it is alive, and then bubbles briefly before becoming still! Ordinary mud doesn't do that!

But then, this is not ordinary mud, and the movements and bubbles are coming from its suffocating meal struggling underneath the surface!

But, the would-be meal manages to fight his way back up to the surface, and slowly escape the quagmire's deadly smothering embrace!
