Nichols gives the scenes on the island with Mud a timeless feeling.
On the one hand, we have O'Neill's insistence that people regard Glastonbury as an isolated island of "mud, drugs, drunkenness, moshing, free love" – er, free love?
"Look at that baby," he says, motioning to a small child sitting on an island of mud.
"In 1945, two mud islands emerged in the same area, and they later disappeared.
It flattened the island down to mud and coral.
A park on Mud Island, in the Mississippi, includes a five-block-long scale model of the river.
We went into the Okavango Delta, got in a makoro (canoe), paddled through crocodile-infested swamp and stayed on a mud island for three days.
Some seventy members of Charlie Company were on board seven of the aircraft, which were heading for Objective Murray, on the island with the mud huts.
Anatolian Sky offers a seven-night trip, from Fethiye to Marmaris, including visits to Cleopatra's bay, the ruins of Tersane island and the mud baths of Dalyan.
If you remember, in my story, at the first objective on the island — Objective Murray — the mud huts were uninhabited when the soldiers arrived earlier that morning.
