Murrells Inlet, SC

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Who farted??? That unmistakable smell floating over the Murrells Inlet marshes is not what you think.

It is pluff mud, the soft sticky organic material that fills the salt marshes and tidal creeks of the South Carolina Lowcountry. This dark gooey stuff forms from fine sediments mixed with decaying smooth cordgrass and other organic matter that settles in oxygen poor bottoms. Bacteria break it down and release hydrogen sulfide gas, creating the classic rotten egg odor that many locals simply call the smell of home.

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The name has deep roots. In the early nineteenth century planters dried the mud and plowed it into their fields as fertilizer. Plow was spelled plough back then, and the local dialect softened the pronunciation into pluff. So plough mud became pluff mud over time.

This mud is packed with nutrients and forms the base of the salt marsh food web. The resulting detritus feeds oysters, crabs, shrimp, snails, and young fish. It helps hold the shoreline in place, filters the water, and softens the force of storms and high tides. South Carolina has more salt marsh than any other Atlantic state, and the Murrells Inlet estuary is a perfect example.

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You can see large stretches of it at low tide. Birds forage there, and the whole system depends on it. At the same time it can be risky. The soft surface acts much like quicksand. A person or even a boat can sink in and get stuck. Sharp oyster shells often hide just under the surface. In March 2025 local firefighters rescued a fisherman whose pontoon had become trapped in the mud near Morse Park Landing. They used ladders to stay on top and pulled him free with a rope.

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📷 Photography by Chad LeFevre

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