Re: BM's Boggy Backgrounds! Updated Oct 20'th, 2012!
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:50 am
On Friday, August 3'rd, I had my 5'th outing of the season, where I returned to the Crescent Road pond, hoping to do some sinking. But unfortunately, a recent cold front resulted in a cool northerly flow that day, and so I wound up spending the entire day waiting for things to warm up enough, which it just fell short of.
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. I had to pick my way around places that still had lot of water, left over from the very wet June. I had to pick my way through willows to get to some meadows, or between meadows, trying to avoid the water.
While exploring part of one meadow, I found one small but deep pond, surrounded by a quaking bog I didn't know about! It looked like there could be some deep, sinkable mud on the west side as well, which still needed a few more weeks to become exposed! However, I wasn't certain whether I would get around to trying it out, since I knew that my Crescent Road pond sinking spot would be far superior. But, if I feel that things get too risky sinking at the Crescent Road pond during hunting season, since it is just barely in view of a distant dirt road, perhaps I could try out this new area, since it is far from any roads! Since I didn't do any sinking that day, I had decided to at least shoot two videos of me making the quaking bog quake, and merged them together.
My Crescent Road pond quagmire, 15 days after my sinking left it covered with water. While water levels had dropped, you can see that there is still a little bit of water left in the middle:
One of the low wet muddy spots in one of the meadows I explored that was previously flooded:
Another part of that wet muddy area in one of the meadows:
A wetter part of that marshy area of the meadow:
Just to the right of the previous pic:
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. I had to pick my way around places that still had lot of water, left over from the very wet June. I had to pick my way through willows to get to some meadows, or between meadows, trying to avoid the water.
While exploring part of one meadow, I found one small but deep pond, surrounded by a quaking bog I didn't know about! It looked like there could be some deep, sinkable mud on the west side as well, which still needed a few more weeks to become exposed! However, I wasn't certain whether I would get around to trying it out, since I knew that my Crescent Road pond sinking spot would be far superior. But, if I feel that things get too risky sinking at the Crescent Road pond during hunting season, since it is just barely in view of a distant dirt road, perhaps I could try out this new area, since it is far from any roads! Since I didn't do any sinking that day, I had decided to at least shoot two videos of me making the quaking bog quake, and merged them together.
My Crescent Road pond quagmire, 15 days after my sinking left it covered with water. While water levels had dropped, you can see that there is still a little bit of water left in the middle:
One of the low wet muddy spots in one of the meadows I explored that was previously flooded:
Another part of that wet muddy area in one of the meadows:
A wetter part of that marshy area of the meadow:
Just to the right of the previous pic: