I spent most of today writing up the Kingsbridge Estuary. This is a tidal ria like the nearby River Dart, except that it has no major river feeding it. It has arms spreading in all directions, but the main channel runs from Kingsbridge to its mouth at Salcombe.
Much of the estuary dries at low tide, so plan your paddle to avoid this. UN tests have conclusively proved that South Devon estuarine silt is the most noxious substance known to science.
Is that what you call a mud bath? and to think that at spas, people pay good money for this silty mud!
Looking at that, I will not complain about Solway mud ever again. Mind you, I had my own mud problems this weekend over on Bute. Got my car really stuck in it with less than an hour to the last ferry home. As I write, it is pouring again, so plenty more mud to come.
I arrived at Kingsbridge a bit late in the day, with thew water only ten feet from the quay.
That ten feet turned out to be a re-enactment of Passchendaele (admittedly without the machine guns) as I waded through the mud.
The best bit was where my boat tipped over and the cockpit filled with gloop. Before returning the (borrowed) boat, we had to hose it down to remove the mud which wasn’t already over the roof of the car.