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Right after finding the cave I walked alone the stream for a bit and found where the spring bubbles up into the mud. I walked another 5 feet or so and found fresh Mountain Lion tracks at the edge of the stream in the mud. Really, really fresh. That was the end of exploring that little canyon.
At low tide the mud banks were fun to explore. There was a hose (cold water) near to the bank for use before returning to Sister
One of the black & white photos now automatically colourised.
We visited this unique landscape with mud volcanoes in Buzau Mts., Romania. This mud pit was spitting from time to time.
Here are some more details about this place:
"The Berca Mud Volcanoes are a geological and botanical reservation located in the Berca commune in the Buzău County in Romania. Its most spectacular feature is the mud volcanoes, small volcano-shaped structures typically a few meters high caused by the eruption of mud and natural gases.
As the gases erupt from 3000 meters-deep towards the surface, through the underground layers of clay and water, they push up underground salty water and mud, so that they overflow through the mouths of the volcanoes, while the gas emerges as bubbles. The mud dries off at the surface, creating a relatively solid conical structure, resembling a real volcano. The mud expelled by them is cold, as it comes from inside the Earth's continental crust layers, and not from the mantle.
The reservation is unique in Romania. The mud volcanoes create a strange lunar landscape, due to the absence of vegetation around the cones. Vegetation is scarce because the soil is very salty, an environmental condition in which few plants can survive." (Wikipedia)