Photos
Blog
NewslettersStuck horse promts army of help
Beaufort, South Carolina
Recent blog posts
- Mystery of Georgia Bigfoot Solved!!
- Ok bloggers - now I need an AC contractor
- Further degredation of our educational system
- Gas must be cheap.....just look at all the LARGE SUV's doing 80+mph down 170 every morning
- TGS
- help gazette and parents
- Did you know?
- letstalkabout it . . . SPED. . .
- Outsider's Opinion
- special needs parents battle school district
I confess -- I grew up as a Yankee, but I'm trying my best. Would someone please explain "pluff mud?" That's a new one to me.
Thanks,
Well, "pluff mud" is probably best described as the dark, extremely soft mud along the shores of our rivers. It has an almost quicksand quality to it and it is very easy to get stuck up to your hips in it if you are not careful. The viscosity of the mud is such that it creates a strong suction around your legs when you sink into it, making it very dificult to work yourself free of it. I have lost a few pairs of shoes to pluff mud!! It also has a very distinct odor to it. Hard to describe the smell but it sort of smells like sewer gas.
Take a deep sniff @ low tide.... Smell that? It's pluff mud! LOL
It's a dark, squishy mud. If you step in it, you'll find yourself waist deep in it if you are not careful.
Not long ago while @ the Sands, my daughter attempted (during low tide) to go out to the water. Stepped in some and lost 1 of her brand new Crocs. While I attempted to dig her out, my foot/leg went in. I finally got my leg out with some nice new scratches from the oyster shells buried in the mud.
...swallows crocs up whole!
Called "pluffmud" because of the sound it makes when you step in it--pluff, pluff, pluff. Smells wonderful, especially on a hot day!
A loose aggregate of tiny clay sediment particles and bits of organic tidbits. It is mostly space and the spaces are filled with either air, but mostly water. Stepping on it is like stepping on thick water.
As a young fellow, we would walk along the riverbanks at low tide exploring. Sometimes we would encounter pluff mud. We found that rather than trying to walk through it and sinking in, we sat down. By sitting, we would not sink and we just dragged our bottoms across until we crossed over. We left weird trails across the mud banks. I have sunk in to my hips by standing and trying to walk.
By the way, alligators would not sink since they are lying down. I've seen alligator trails on mud banks where they "swam" themselves along, but they wouldn't sink in very far.
Egret, I think undercoverbrother was making a joke in reference to born in beaufort's post where he said his daughter lost one of her Croc shoes. Croc's are a brand and style of casual shoe.
Wow, that went right over my head. I guess I need to read prior posts! I know what crocs are because I bought a pair of orange ones from Grayco. Clemson people want everybody to know where they went to school. My wife wears blue because they are "pretty". No school loyalty with her.
What about the poor horse that almost died because he was running loose. As a matter of fact there were TWO running loose at 7:15 am. I left a voice mail on Mr. Gay's phone about it.