Quicksand Fans

It came out a bit too long and too large to post here, so I've added it to Harn's Channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L39jbVnT ... annel_page

A couple bits, I recycled. Most of this is stuff that I didn't post here but was taken during the same session, meaning, the outfits will look familiar although the sinking itself is different.

The finale is a wetsuit scene and I got the camera guy back, but only after I assured him that I could positively point my finger right at...

THE ENEMY.

If anybody wonders, there is no cropping of that to fit the type in. There is no more to the picture. The camera won't zoom out any farther and so it was flipped to show all of me. He can't step back either because MORE OF THE ENEMY lurks right behind.

I included a short snippet of me emerging after we did the bikini thing. I can plainly see my back pushing into bushes where I now know...for a fact...there is yet another of those evil things.

I'm much better now and I'm actually surprised I didn't get it much worse considering how many times I tromped right through it. Well, anyway, now I know what caused all those rashes and I can get in and out without getting poisoned, and after you watch this you'll know what it looks like too.

Nessie

Thanks for the PSA, Nessie! That is useful to know. Plus the sinking is pretty cool too. And you, of course...


My spot, which a couple weeks ago was under a couple inches of water (booo...) isn't a poison plant haven... I do have to contest with thistles and other barbed plants, but not on the approach, which does provide some extra measure of security.

I use Round Up in my garden, but I'm not sure what the rangers would say about using it in their parks...

As usual, the water-ski top and bikini footage was especially good - it is always attractive to see you as a genuine quicksand-girl in any venue, more than even the good paid actresses, and this is no exception. Thanks.

That has to be the most skillfully executed information video I've ever watched. And all on a budget of virtually nothing. I had a difficult time keeping one eye on you and another on the crawling text so I had to watch it twice but it was worth it. Well done.

PM2K wrote:I do have to contest with thistles and other barbed plants, but not on the approach, which does provide some extra measure of security.

I'm long past my "getting poked by thistle" stage. That was one of the first plants I had to learn to contend with and I'm pretty good at avoiding that! Stinging nettle nailed me with three weeks of itchy welts once and I didn't even get mud at that place. I've been told that I've walked right through poison ivy patches but this is the first time I've had a rash from that evil urishiol chemical since I was in my teens.

Just so's y-all know, though, out of poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac...sumac is the most potent!

Weeds of any kind keep people out. You can hardly get 'em off a paved path around here, much less in weeds that grow to be as tall as they are.

Nessie

Boppinabe wrote:I use Round Up in my garden, but I'm not sure what the rangers would say about using it in their parks...

I'm getting clippers.

You're allowed to cut all the branches you want in there to camouflage your hunting stand. Why can't I cut down the branches that are between me and my mudpit?

The chemical that irritates the skin doesn't go away after summer ends, and there's plenty of signs that hunters were duck-hunting right around my mudpit last fall. I even found a broken chair out there along with scads of spent shells.

I bet those guys couldn't figure out what hit 'em.

I could just cut my way to the mudpit. I'd be doing them a favor.

Nessie

Duncan Edwards wrote: I had a difficult time keeping one eye on you and another on the crawling text so I had to watch it twice but it was worth it. Well done.

Thank you for the kind words about my documentary skills.

What will REALLY be worth it, though, is if I hear that you, or anyone else, saw that plant out at a mud site and recognized it from this video...and therefore, you did not touch it.

Nessie

jack c wrote:As usual, the water-ski top and bikini footage was especially good - it is always attractive to see you as a genuine quicksand-girl in any venue, more than even the good paid actresses, and this is no exception. Thanks.

I am glad you are enjoying the clips. Which very nearly came to an end due to The Enemy.

But now the face of The Enemy is revealed and therefore contact with it is avoidable. I can go back.

Nessie

Duncan Edwards wrote:That has to be the most skillfully executed information video I've ever watched. And all on a budget of virtually nothing. I had a difficult time keeping one eye on you and another on the crawling text so I had to watch it twice but it was worth it. Well done.

He took the words right out of my mouth!

I am glad that the only thing I have found here in BC is poison ivy, but it is mostly in the valleys, and not around my bogs. However, I do encounter stinging nettle in some areas in the mountains, as well as in the valleys.

When I explored the mud in the debris field below clay cliffs along Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, I always coated my legs and feet with thick, gooey clay to help protect them in case I came into contact with poison ivy, which was all over the place. I often had to find ways around it, and often had to backtrack, to get to places where the hidden sticky clay to sink into was. But, each time I so much as brushed a leaf, I would then head straight into the lake and clean the clay off my legs and feet, coat them again with more clay from the edge of the debris field, and resume exploring. I never had a reaction, but probably because I was overly cautious.