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Default Miami Passage - Day 6, completed - October 12

"Skip Gundlach" wrote in news:gcvqla$k5k$1
@aioe.org:

Perhaps it's the "pluff mud" which is on the
other shore - so soft that if you fall off the dock into it
you're up to your waist.


Not long ago a guy on a too-fast motorcycle shot over the handrail of the
James Island fixed bridge on the Charleston side and fell about 70' into
the pluff mud below the bridge. He plunged into the mud up to his face and
actually had to struggle himself to the surface of it to breathe until the
rescue squad could come and haul him out using 4x8 sheets of plywood to
support the rescue team across the mud to him. The pluff mud saved his
life from the 70' fall. The motorcycle was destroyed as it impacted the
side of the bridge railing around 70 mph.

There are many things encased in pluff mud for future archeologists to
discover when it solidifies into clay thousands of years from now after
humanity destroys itself, as it is hell bent on doing.

Bye Bye Flying Pig until next time.....(wave)....

Capt Larry
Larry's Limo and Electronics....(c;