Photo Essay : Muddy Adventure

With an overnight heavy downpour, some parts of the area was 'flooded' rather slightly with water. Contemplating to go from right to left, the person behind the steering wheel took left instead. Much thanks to the overgrown grass, no one anticipated a wet area about a couple of inch of water and boom, all four wheels got stuck. It was too late to reverse and it only made the car sink in deeper. Moving forward resulted into the same situation - getting stuck even more.

We managed to gather two long wooden planks and a couple of big stones to put under the car. We even tried jacking one side of the car up to slide in the plank underneath. The plank went under for one side but we couldn't slide the other plank on the left tire because things got way too slippery. With one plank under, we tried to reverse putting the 4wd gear on, but to no avail. Pushing the car from the front while another person behind the wheel on a reverse gear proved to be a waste of time and energy draining.

[caption id="attachment_1437" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="One plank under the tire"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1438" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Front wheel down"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1439" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Went in pretty deep right, eh?"][/caption]

Finally, we resorted to call the tow truck guy, waited on a rock all hungry, luckily we got 2 mangoes and half drenched in mud. After what felt like a long wait later, the pulling began. The car got pulled out of the mud leaving a couple of inches deep tire track on the runny, muddy soil but we didn't get to go home just yet. The tow truck got itself stuck in the mud too for two times! Haha. Thankfully, our car is already out of the mud, so we began pulling the tow truck instead.

[caption id="attachment_1440" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Yay! The car's out after 3 hours stuck in the mud!"][/caption]

All went well, nobody got hurt except that I got bitten by a flying insect on my hand and everyone left with mud stains on our faces, hands, sunglasses, pants and all over the car of course. :).

[caption id="attachment_1441" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="All 'mud' up! A mud fight would have been nice."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1442" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="That's not just mud. It's a mud-buffalo poop combo!"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_1443" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The mud stains caking on my pants. It doesn't show so much coz I got a grey color pants."][/caption]

All in all, it was a great day indeed! Oh, I did went home with a good scrubbing all over the body. Haha.