MUD SPA
MUD SPA at BEAUTY BAR
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TIDAL ESTUARY
I AM not telling a marketing fib….this soft creamy mud is - “ODORLESS“. Granted, crawling around and being encased in the substance is quite odd, but lots of people are liking it and get lots of laughs. Guess I’ll promote it!!!!!!
Years ago. I guided a military reform school. One particular day around 2:00 p.m., 2 of the cadets returned to our camp having been beach combing and goofing around. We are on an island and there is no escape out here, except, by boat – which where moored onshore within eyesight of the military counselors. We at camp where enjoying the sights and sounds of the estuary as the 2 cadets became visible on their return. The closer they got the more we took notice. At 25 yards they where indistinguishable, because they where caked in mud.
These young men where not looking for a beauty cream, they where just goofing around and thus TIDE GUIDE Mud Spa at Beauty Bar began.
The counselors where befuddled and the 6 other cadets where jealous and wanted to go for a mud bath. When we began laughing – they began laughing and then we all walked down Shell Bar to the east where a tidal flat lay exposed to the winter sun.
The 2 founders of the spa lead us out into the extra warm, soft, odorless primordial ooze. Only in swim trunks and immediately a mud fight commenced, all in good cheer. I don’t remember what all the offences where that got these young men into the military school – but this day turned out to be some pretty clean fun. Everybody got totally caked, even the flat top Marine Corp councilors. Later we walked over to the tidal pass and swim and wash off.
So this is how it all began. Each season now U.T.S.A students love it, Trinity University students love it and private trips.
As long as the mud is hot everybody loves it. And I don’t think it makes any significant impact on the ecology.
Now if this fountain of youth would also make hair grow back I’d really be happy and maybe grow back the teeth that got knocked out when I was the cadets age. I guess I’ll settle just for getting more handsome – how about you…..
