Careful this is how many dinosaurs met their fate and became fossilised.

Oh, this place is just tidal mud, if you know what you are doing its navigable. However I'd not risk it here without support. Anyway, its far to exposed for my tastes. If i'm gonna play in the mud, I don't want to be out in the view of a freeway full of people. I'd prefer just me and a few friends is all.

Dino's didn't know what they were getting themselves into, we do, and know how to deal with it safely. ;)

I agree. If this sign was in the middle of nowhere, I'd totally got for it!

Same!

Apart from the freeway a nice place.

Too exposed to explore proper like :( maybe further down the banks. I could find a way in.

Danger? I don't really see danger, aside from that freeway there...

They've had issues in the past, lots of issues and near drownings as this is tidally effected. People had better read the tide tables darnit!

I can imagine a lot of people just disregarding the warning signs and walking straight across only to find themselves mired.

There's a rescue outpost just up river of this place, so ya gotta wonder...

Now that's just awesome. *laughs* My kind of sign!

Its really nice I mean, what better way to know that someplace has good deep mud! I mean, state approved n everything, they are nice enough to even provide a sign pointing it out!

Hey, that's right. Tidal Mud. This is the stuff that tends to soften and solidify without warning whether you're in or out right? It's been a while but this is the only stuff that regularly kills, isn't it?

Hmm's Haven't encountered that quality of tidal muck yet. This area just seems to be deep creamy mud, no solid consistancy to keep you from going plop into. An area nearby that i had the oppurtiunity to explore once was quite easy to walk through, up intill it gets closer to the tide itself, then it starts to get trecherously deep and really a workout. That stuff went from consistantly shin to knee deep then started to get down to my lower thighs, till I eventually hit the soft stuff, and about found myself sitting in it, while still standing up I'd believe the stuff you're refering to, to be more of the sandy mixtures than the clay mixtures that we tend to have a great deal of out this way. I've seen nice sandy beaches turn from nice sandy beach to nice sandy quicksand in just a few footsteps of differince one way or the other in a tidally effected area.

That's the rub. If any portion of the medium you happen to be stuck in suddenly looses it's water content, it turns back to solid earth. I suppose that, checking my resources again, what I'm referring too is actually more like "quick clay" which only forms in areas where glacial silt is present in abundance. When disturbed, like by a person walking around on it or the pressure of a rising tide, it liquifies or deliquifies depending on what direction the water would normally take. Thing is, to a pro like you, it probably takes the same place in your mind as flashsand. It's either a complete myth or so rare that you'd never ordinarily run into it...

Yeah pooh pooh about that freeway... ... people would probably think you're crazy if they saw you there (which they would, if you were there). Either that or they'd think you needed help.

Looks nice apart from the unwanted publicity!

A good rescue would be cool and all, but the scolding thereafter wouldn't be so nice, and its WAY too exposed for my liking.

Watch a car fly off the road and sink outta sight in there!

Uhh, thats up north by the next town really, when the Skagit River Bridge failed. not mud but river. and a close call for all involved. The finally have the temporary bridge up in operation now.