Even here, with homesteads and roads on slightly raised lands, mud-brick houses have dissolved and all that remains are pitiful piles of debris where they once stood.
My soul, like some broken down Land Rover, stuck in the country mud and refused to budge".
Arnhem land, Australia: Mud carpets the drought ravaged Gayngaru wetlands of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Up to 40 tourists a time are flown in on tiny planes, landing on mud air strips.
Though he didn't witness it, he has heard about a girl who jumped off one bridge, landed in mud and was stuck.
To many people, the rawness of this land of mud, smoke and penguin carcasses would be anything but beautiful (and yes, the place does stink) but there is something exciting about being in a place where so few humans have set foot.
It seems a token, its minimalist lyricism chiming too easily with the chic architecture of the new Mitte, between the Reichstag and Potsdamer Platz, which until recently was one great scar, a spectacular no man's land of mud and wire.
Everyone in the basket should keep in mind that the balloon may land in mud or rough terrain, and wear comfortable clothes and shoes.
Everywhere the waters were pouring off the land, leaving mud-silted ruins, and the earth littered like a storm-worn beach with all that had floated, and the dead bodies of the men and brutes, its children.
On flow margins or at the downstream ends of depositional zones where velocities are much slower, lahars can encase buildings, roads, towers, and farm land in mud-rock slurries that can dry out to near concrete-like hardness.
Trying to land in severe weather, the plane skidded to a safe landing in the mud after traveling from Buffalo, where the band performed on Friday.
