So a long time ago I stayed in the Midwest and the local reservoir was drained. The mud at the bottom had a black sheen in part which was almost definitely petroleum from the boats and runoff--gross, but it felt fucking good.
That's what this looks like here. Mine wasn't this good though.
A quarry or another kind of pond dried up. Is there nothing equivalent or a good mudflat in New Zealand?
I once found a small pool of something similar outside of a clothes cleaners. It was mud mixed with some black oily sludge. I instantly rolled in it at night, like a crazed mud beast, and it took hours to remove. I would do it again!
There was someone who posted a couple of years ago about old coal mine tailing ponds, and this site looks very similar. It doesn't look quite like any naturally occurring mud I've encountered, and the background in one of the videos looks like there's a slag heap (we'd call it a bing in Scotland), which also makes me think ex-mining area.
MuddyOtter said: There was someone who posted a couple of years ago about old coal mine tailing ponds, and this site looks very similar. It doesn't look quite like any naturally occurring mud I've encountered, and the background in one of the videos looks like there's a slag heap (we'd call it a bing in Scotland), which also makes me think ex-mining area.
He confirmed in the comments it's a coal mine. Surely it can't be safe but I bet it feels good.