Re: BM's Boggy Adventure & BG Pix! Updated 9/23/'23!
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 7:33 am
My August 28'th, 2023 Adventure, Part 6 (Click Here For The Beginning With More Pix)!
Photos continued:
All finished with taking photos, I headed back to my things, and set my camera case down, feeling hot and finally ready to prepare for my dramatic video of the day!
I decided to have a video without a lot of talking before the sink, so I could get straight to the action, and then talk things out while sinking. I thought about having the breathing hose nearby to get it ready after I finished my dramatic sink video, and go straight to the breathing hose sink after that, but I wanted the breathing hose sink to be in even thicker mud closer to the sides, where it would hopefully be a bit more "farty"! So, I just went for the dramatic sink first, and would decide afterwards what to do next.
I got undressed, and set my stick in a nice spot in the floating grass on the south side of the bog. After setting it back to 16:9, I then screwed my camera onto the Gorillapod, and wrapped its three knobby tentacles around the stick. I then began to fiddle around with trying to frame it properly, but the features of my smoothed-out bog were somewhat washed-out on the lcd screen, making it difficult to center it on a certain part of the bog, choosing one particular irregularity with a noticeable shadow as a reference point. But, I managed to find it, zoomed in a little, and then turned the camera off while I headed back to put on my swim cap, once again, inside out to have the solid fluorescent green side outside, and the side with the green turning into shrinking green dots with white in the background towards the top, on the inside (objects that are too bright can make surroundings too dark on camera). I had to return to the camera with my sunglasses on again, to turn it on, and make some final adjustments to properly frame the spot where all the action was going to be, using the chosen tiny irregularity with the shadow that was barely visible on the screen as a reference, where I was going to plunge into the mire barely on the west side of. I also tried to zoom in enough to hide the grass on the east side, but couldn't tell if I was successful. All satisfied that everything was all set up properly, I pressed the record button, hearing the camera beep, and then headed back to my things to remove my sunglasses and put on my swim goggles. I then returned to the bog, but standing on the north side, I first couldn't locate the reference point! So, I walked around to the east side and then towards the south to get another glimpse of it, before returning to the north side, now knowing exactly where to make my leap into! I was now ready to begin!
I walked away from the north side, then started to make a brisk walk, or slight jog towards "my destiny" , and made the fateful leap, landing on the west part of my reference point, immediately getting gulped down almost to my waist in the doughy morass! I then began to talk as I assessed my situation and explain how I was hiking for 2 1/2 hours to get to this lake, and was ready for a swim. I struggled, pushing my arms down onto the surface, only to have them sucked in, and the hungry quagmire sucking my body down deeper! I churned the mud around me as I tried to escape the sticky mess that was slowly gulping me down! It was quite intense physical activity, struggling in such thick, doughy quagmire! I had to try and look away from the sun, which was shining in my eyes, which I was concerned about making my floaters and blind spots worse. I continued to struggle, the muck giving out the occasional fart of swamp gas. As it was closing over my shoulders, I could hear it making some sucking sounds as I struggled. Because the voracious ooze was so thick, it was slow going sinking down deeper. When it started to rise over my mouth, I had to start tilting my head further and further back, as my struggles allowed the hungry quagmire to slowly suck me down even deeper and deeper! I was concerned about all this exercise from struggling in the thick muck that had made me feel quite out of breath, because the submersion was coming up! The mire sucked over my goggles on my upturned head, enclosing me in blackness, and then I could feel the suffocating muck slowly closing around my mouth. Finally, when I could feel the air I was inhaling being forcefully sucked through the mud above me, I sucked in that one final big breath, held it, and then struggled myself down deeper, working my face forward beneath the smothering doughy ooze! I then exhaled, with the suffocating mire passing the gas to the surface in a hissing stream!
After the exhalation, I so badly wanted to linger there for just a few more seconds for added effect, but because of all the intense physical activity of struggling in the thick mire that had me out of breath initially, my heart rate was somewhat elevated, meaning that after losing some air from my lungs to the surface above, my body was demanding fresh air with oxygen NOW!!!!! So, I had to immediately work myself up to the surface and quickly wipe the thick, suffocating coating of doughy mire from my mouth, to take in lungfuls of fresh air! I then lingered there to finish catching my breath, something I didn't have time to do before my submersion (didn't want to pause my performance during the shooting of my video). I then proceeded to work myself higher and higher up out of the muck, wiping it away from my head and body as I went. Once I got to around waist deep, I worked myself around and then worked myself forward into a diagonal position, where I could slowly work myself forward through the mire towards the north end, pushing mud from in front of me towards the back side of me, so it didn't bunch up in front of me. Once I managed to get close to the north side, I was able to start pulling on the grass, and continue to move mud from in front of me to behind me. Then, I turned around again, and pressing down on the grass with my hands, I lifted my buttocks above the muck and pulled myself backwards, sitting down on the grass. I worked my legs and feet out, wiping the mud off them back into the bog. Then, I headed to the pond where I cleaned my hands, and returned to my camera, where I pressed the record button to stop the video, but then was uncertain if I did it, since I couldn't see the screen through the foggy, boggy goggles. So, I pressed it a few more times before turning the camera off, knowing there would be some extra videos a few seconds long of my bare disturbed patch of mud, which I would delete later.
To Be Concluded...
Photos continued:
All finished with taking photos, I headed back to my things, and set my camera case down, feeling hot and finally ready to prepare for my dramatic video of the day!
I decided to have a video without a lot of talking before the sink, so I could get straight to the action, and then talk things out while sinking. I thought about having the breathing hose nearby to get it ready after I finished my dramatic sink video, and go straight to the breathing hose sink after that, but I wanted the breathing hose sink to be in even thicker mud closer to the sides, where it would hopefully be a bit more "farty"! So, I just went for the dramatic sink first, and would decide afterwards what to do next.
I got undressed, and set my stick in a nice spot in the floating grass on the south side of the bog. After setting it back to 16:9, I then screwed my camera onto the Gorillapod, and wrapped its three knobby tentacles around the stick. I then began to fiddle around with trying to frame it properly, but the features of my smoothed-out bog were somewhat washed-out on the lcd screen, making it difficult to center it on a certain part of the bog, choosing one particular irregularity with a noticeable shadow as a reference point. But, I managed to find it, zoomed in a little, and then turned the camera off while I headed back to put on my swim cap, once again, inside out to have the solid fluorescent green side outside, and the side with the green turning into shrinking green dots with white in the background towards the top, on the inside (objects that are too bright can make surroundings too dark on camera). I had to return to the camera with my sunglasses on again, to turn it on, and make some final adjustments to properly frame the spot where all the action was going to be, using the chosen tiny irregularity with the shadow that was barely visible on the screen as a reference, where I was going to plunge into the mire barely on the west side of. I also tried to zoom in enough to hide the grass on the east side, but couldn't tell if I was successful. All satisfied that everything was all set up properly, I pressed the record button, hearing the camera beep, and then headed back to my things to remove my sunglasses and put on my swim goggles. I then returned to the bog, but standing on the north side, I first couldn't locate the reference point! So, I walked around to the east side and then towards the south to get another glimpse of it, before returning to the north side, now knowing exactly where to make my leap into! I was now ready to begin!
I walked away from the north side, then started to make a brisk walk, or slight jog towards "my destiny" , and made the fateful leap, landing on the west part of my reference point, immediately getting gulped down almost to my waist in the doughy morass! I then began to talk as I assessed my situation and explain how I was hiking for 2 1/2 hours to get to this lake, and was ready for a swim. I struggled, pushing my arms down onto the surface, only to have them sucked in, and the hungry quagmire sucking my body down deeper! I churned the mud around me as I tried to escape the sticky mess that was slowly gulping me down! It was quite intense physical activity, struggling in such thick, doughy quagmire! I had to try and look away from the sun, which was shining in my eyes, which I was concerned about making my floaters and blind spots worse. I continued to struggle, the muck giving out the occasional fart of swamp gas. As it was closing over my shoulders, I could hear it making some sucking sounds as I struggled. Because the voracious ooze was so thick, it was slow going sinking down deeper. When it started to rise over my mouth, I had to start tilting my head further and further back, as my struggles allowed the hungry quagmire to slowly suck me down even deeper and deeper! I was concerned about all this exercise from struggling in the thick muck that had made me feel quite out of breath, because the submersion was coming up! The mire sucked over my goggles on my upturned head, enclosing me in blackness, and then I could feel the suffocating muck slowly closing around my mouth. Finally, when I could feel the air I was inhaling being forcefully sucked through the mud above me, I sucked in that one final big breath, held it, and then struggled myself down deeper, working my face forward beneath the smothering doughy ooze! I then exhaled, with the suffocating mire passing the gas to the surface in a hissing stream!
After the exhalation, I so badly wanted to linger there for just a few more seconds for added effect, but because of all the intense physical activity of struggling in the thick mire that had me out of breath initially, my heart rate was somewhat elevated, meaning that after losing some air from my lungs to the surface above, my body was demanding fresh air with oxygen NOW!!!!! So, I had to immediately work myself up to the surface and quickly wipe the thick, suffocating coating of doughy mire from my mouth, to take in lungfuls of fresh air! I then lingered there to finish catching my breath, something I didn't have time to do before my submersion (didn't want to pause my performance during the shooting of my video). I then proceeded to work myself higher and higher up out of the muck, wiping it away from my head and body as I went. Once I got to around waist deep, I worked myself around and then worked myself forward into a diagonal position, where I could slowly work myself forward through the mire towards the north end, pushing mud from in front of me towards the back side of me, so it didn't bunch up in front of me. Once I managed to get close to the north side, I was able to start pulling on the grass, and continue to move mud from in front of me to behind me. Then, I turned around again, and pressing down on the grass with my hands, I lifted my buttocks above the muck and pulled myself backwards, sitting down on the grass. I worked my legs and feet out, wiping the mud off them back into the bog. Then, I headed to the pond where I cleaned my hands, and returned to my camera, where I pressed the record button to stop the video, but then was uncertain if I did it, since I couldn't see the screen through the foggy, boggy goggles. So, I pressed it a few more times before turning the camera off, knowing there would be some extra videos a few seconds long of my bare disturbed patch of mud, which I would delete later.
To Be Concluded...