Interesting article, I've always had a bit of a fascination with the hugeness of the mudflats. But the 1980's story of the young woman who got stuck in the mud by Hope and couldn't be pulled free before the tide came in and drown her has kept me away  tide flats. The year I heard that story I went down to the public boat launch in Anchorage and threw some rocks onto the mud and they disappeared as it was so  gooey. A year later I watched an excavator barely making its way across the flats right below downtown Anchorage as they were laying some type of utilities.

So the dangers and the obvious messiness of the mud have kept me off them and I don't really feel like I'm missing out on anything. But I enjoyed reading the story. I do think it was too dangerous to be taking two young children out there though.