Tris30 wrote:Thanks boggy man for the reply i am always prepared safety first
Do you have any experience in tidal mud like this ?
How deep do you think i will sink here
My experience with tidal mud is extremely limited. I had one brief slog through some tidal mud in a creek channel in White Rock, BC, where I carefully walked through thicker mud, taking care not to get too deep up my legs, and not getting too close to a low spot that was softer. Didn't want to get my clothes dirty because I was young and didn't want to get in trouble with my parents back at the nearby campsite. Then, years later, when I went to UBC in Vancouver, I walked through some mudflats south of Wreck Beach, which is a nude beach (I stayed clothed, but with shorts (or was it jeans with rolled up pant legs) and bare feet). I found that a large part of the mud seemed to be fairly solid, with me sinking only several inches before hitting stiffer mud. However, when I approached spots with a trickle of water on top, suddenly the stiff mud underneath the shallow layer of softer mud would become rubbery, and then my feet would start to punch through it into waterier mud underneath, making a sloshing sound, with surface with the trickle of water quaking (underground stream?). I had to back off to keep from getting muddy. Probing it with a stick, I found it to be waist deep (I believe it had a gravel bottom, since that was what I hit in a very shallow spot earlier on). Further south down the mudflats, closer to a bunch of logs laying on the mudflats, the softer surface seemed to get deeper with no stiffer bottom. Because it was a public area, I couldn't do any form of mudplay at all. Helicopters kept flying low over that shoreline quite frequently as well.
Regarding how deep you would sink in that flat area by the water, I have no idea, just that the very center looks like a spot where it would be the deepest, given the shape of the sides of the channel. The only way to find out is to try it out.
