interesting comments

[lonesinker]

I have to admit,finding the perfect sink spot can be loads of fun, I do like Nessie,s approach and subtlety about how you inspect the area for traffic and privacy. Im the same way I like pretty much checking things out slowly and on my own, I usually turn my mud explorations into hikes. I always worry about if Im in the pit and someone shows up...hey has this ever happened to anyone...how awkward that would be, I mean how do you explain crawling around in a mud bog ...
And problem # 2 is cleaning yourself off after your mud swim, Ive been carrying water jugs and wet towels and so far its worked out pretty good unless you are lucky enough to be close to a lake which mostly I am.
As far as being shoulder depth in the pit is something I dont want to mess with especially the thick mud ive been going in, its been very dry and the mud,s like glue seriously I can,t see someone getting out on their own in some of these spots and I m fairly strong, this stuff is a mix of clay and creek mud, its like lock tite. cheers everyone

[Firewind127]

Can i come visit? ^^ That sounds like some incredible mud you have there, perhaps we can just pitch a tent (with the bottom cut out of course) over the hole and use that for cover. Just a silly thought, but man, that sounds like some of the best mud one can ask for, shoulder deep lock tite? Hope you can keep that spot for years to come.

[mudboy19]

i was shoulder deep in a peatbog once when 2 teens came along and wanted to rescue me and did not want to go away LOL was so weird

[YerKiddin]

I don't know to say if I've been lucky or what as far as privacy goes. I've been caught once (at a sulphur strip-mining operation in Texas) and told in no uncertainty that I was NOT welcome. Once, while waist deep in the Little Colorado river at sundown, without a stitch of clothes on, I had some guys in a pickup truck honk on their way by, without stopping. (I don't know what they did or did not see) Aside from that, I've never met anyone else while out playing in the mud.

[rgadt]

I have mixed results as far as sinking in publicly visible areas, because sometimes I worry about people getting a glimpse and being curious enough to turn around and come back to see what's going on. So far, this has not been a problem, but you never know... I've only been caught one time while actually sinking in mud, out at the Red River off of I-35, by a grandfather and his grandson, out walking the bank (don't remember what they were there for) when they came across me waist-deep in nice soft mud, trying to sink deeper. The man was rather indignant that I was there, being it was private property (according to him anyway)(probably more concerned about his grandson) so he made sure that I got out, washed off, and departed right away. I have made several trips to that vicinity, but that was the only occasion where anyone actually got close enough to talk to me, and ask what I was doing. I've had other times where I heard voices, or a passing boat or motorcycle, and had to consider taking cover until they passed, with no further difficulty. Secluded spots are wonderful, if you don't have to injure yourself or wear yourself out to reach them (as I did in my most recent outing). But sometimes it just requires more exploration and research.
rgadt

[Nessie]

At my very newest spot (see new avatar) there is a highway across the lake, but I'm not visible while behind the cattails in the bog. Passing cars, though, could see me on the side of the tall hill that overlooks the bog, although if they do, I'd be pretty tiny to them.

They could, if they were of a mind to, wonder how I could have ever gotten way out there. Well, they could wonder that if if they realize how hard it really is to get there...which is, I do have to work at it seriously.

But does every car going by know that? How would they? And why aren't they watching the road, dozing with earphones, reading a book, talking to each other, or admiring the lakeside scenery that's on their side of the lake?

It is a public park. I'm not sure, though, if those "PARK BOUNDARY" signs are over there, or not.

But if I want to be on the side of that hill, I do in fact have a right to be there!

Most of my "visibility" issues are a bit like that. I guess that people could see me near my mudpits at times but it would be a pretty big project to stop the car, get out and actually try to investigate.

Nessie

[YerKiddin]

Um. I forgot about one event that happened to me when I was wading in the mud on the Red River near Fulton, AR. Some folks in a motorboat came by and yelled to ask if I was high or "on something". I yelled back that I was not, and that I was okay without it, then left after they sped away.