The storm had passed leaving only mud and soggy canvas in its wake to mark its passage across the camp.
Mopping up operations began as the flood receeded, leaving mud inside as well as out.
These stepped carefully, leaving as little mud and moisture as possible.
At the head of the cove, half a dozen more startled fish - large fish - darted away, leaving only mud in their wakes.
Here, walkways were unpaved-night rain had left mud and puddles.
It ran clean, leaving almost no mud or girt.
Then in a few days, three at most, the water is gone, leaving only brown mud cracking and baking in the sun.
The trains were running again today and much of the water had receded by this morning, leaving mud, muck and misery behind.
A thunderstorm had come and gone during the night, unheard by them inside, leaving fresh mud where the small stream's banks had been dry dirt.
When the tide goes out it leaves mud that the mangroves are trying to colonise.