On Thursday, July 19'th, I had my 4'th outing of the season, where I finally visited my Crescent Road pond for the first time this year! 
Because of the super wet June 
, I was concerned that the water levels would still be high enough to flood my bog, or at the very best, create a layer of water just underneath the surface, with a thin layer of mud over top, making it become extremely loose and watery on top when I struggled in it. 
When I arrived there, I was pleased to see that while the surrounding vegetation was still in water, the bog itself was exposed! 
So, I knew that there was a pocket of water hiding beneath that mud! I chose to wear a junk sweater, because in previous years, when I used to do bog loosening in the water, it would make interesting squishing and sloppy sounds in the very wet, sloppy mire, and I wanted those sounds for the video. But, when I jumped in for the video, I was delighted to see that the layer of water was not a few inches beneath the surface, but actually a few FEET beneath the surface, with nice thick gooey stuff on top!!!!! So, no extreme slurpy sloppiness, but the deeper location of the layer of water did make it all the more "treacherous" , since I had less support under my feet and around my legs, although my feet did sink down into more mud under the layer of water once I got in deeper! I didn't let the scene stretch out for very long because I didn't want to take any chances with water bubbling up to the surface around me before the "end" of the sink! Enjoy! 
A hiker in the remote wilderness had put on a sweater in the morning, since it felt a bit cool in the shade of the woods. But, it quickly got hotter, especially when he finally got out into the sunshine in a clearing with a meadow and a pond. So now, he decides to step across a patch of muddy ground before finally taking off the sweater. There are some animal tracks on the surface of the mud, so it looks innocent enough...
Here is a patch of innocent-looking disturbed ground. You would never guess that it conceals a 6' 2" grown man, standing up, and slowly suffocating underneath the sticky, doughy ooze! How is he ever going to escape this deadly, smothering mire? Watch and see!
But, in the meantime, I explored a number of meadows in the area, north of my Crescent Road pond, some of which I had explored before in the past, but obviously not all. In fact, I discovered in one meadow, there was one small but deep pond, surrounded by a quaking bog I didn't know about! 
Beneath the undulating surface of the bottomless doughy quagmire, lurks the 6' 2" tall Boggy Man! 
You can hear him breathing through the thick quagmire! Watch how the surface of the thick morass quakes and undulates ominously as he slowly works his way out of the thick, sticky, bottomless ooze!
