I promise that the slew of B-movie titles to my posts won't last forever, I'm just on a bit of a kick. So deal with it.
This morning was the morning when we were going to venture out into the mud flats of the estuary to look for mud shrimp and see eel grass beds. Oh, and play in the mud. The morning started off as so many on the Oregon coast do, and that is foggy. But you know as they say, "If you don't like the weather on the coast, wait 5 minutes." So true. Sally suggested that we gear up in hip waders but to be wary because the mud has a tendency to grap your boots or anything and hold on to it. To bad for me anyways because my legs weren't long enough for any of the waders that she had for us to borrow. I wasn't the only one though which was all right.
We arrived at a place called Sally's Bend, a section of the estuary where Sally has some ecological experiments set up, and we got out of the vans and headed down the banks to see a fog covered mud flat stretching before us.
Striking out into the flat we found that the mud was indeed as bad as we had thought it was going to be. Believe me, it was super cold too! But after a little while you don't really notice the cold anymore. What I did notice though was all the little rocks that were getting caught under my foot in my Chaco. Not cool! I even lost one of my Chacos at one point! My heel slipped out and I couldn't get my shoe out of the muddy hole it was in so I had to pull my leg out minus the shoe and reach down into the hole and grab my Chaco before the mud filled back in. Quite the balancing act. Mostly because my other leg was thigh deep in mud when I had to rescue my other shoe!
We were rooting around the mud for these little shrimp and managed to find them by taking cores of the mud with a giant garbage can thing and then scooping out the mud inside. Very scientific I know but sometimes you have to do the best you can with what you have. And that's all we had at the time. Still it was really cool to be picking these shrimp out of the mud while we were falling down in it.
After collection some people decided they'd had enough of trying to stay clean and finally gave in to the lure of the mud. Throwing mud around and pushing each other we all eventually got dirtier than we had probably intended, but it was still so much fun. I don't think I've ever had as much fun getting dirty as I did this morning!
This morning was the morning when we were going to venture out into the mud flats of the estuary to look for mud shrimp and see eel grass beds. Oh, and play in the mud. The morning started off as so many on the Oregon coast do, and that is foggy. But you know as they say, "If you don't like the weather on the coast, wait 5 minutes." So true. Sally suggested that we gear up in hip waders but to be wary because the mud has a tendency to grap your boots or anything and hold on to it. To bad for me anyways because my legs weren't long enough for any of the waders that she had for us to borrow. I wasn't the only one though which was all right. 
We arrived at a place called Sally's Bend, a section of the estuary where Sally has some ecological experiments set up, and we got out of the vans and headed down the banks to see a fog covered mud flat stretching before us. 
Striking out into the flat we found that the mud was indeed as bad as we had thought it was going to be. Believe me, it was super cold too! But after a little while you don't really notice the cold anymore. What I did notice though was all the little rocks that were getting caught under my foot in my Chaco. Not cool! I even lost one of my Chacos at one point! My heel slipped out and I couldn't get my shoe out of the muddy hole it was in so I had to pull my leg out minus the shoe and reach down into the hole and grab my Chaco before the mud filled back in. Quite the balancing act. Mostly because my other leg was thigh deep in mud when I had to rescue my other shoe!
We were rooting around the mud for these little shrimp and managed to find them by taking cores of the mud with a giant garbage can thing and then scooping out the mud inside. Very scientific I know but sometimes you have to do the best you can with what you have. And that's all we had at the time. Still it was really cool to be picking these shrimp out of the mud while we were falling down in it. 
After collection some people decided they'd had enough of trying to stay clean and finally gave in to the lure of the mud. Throwing mud around and pushing each other we all eventually got dirtier than we had probably intended, but it was still so much fun. I don't think I've ever had as much fun getting dirty as I did this morning!
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Seriously awesome!
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