Not too many things are going to lay around in the ‘pluff’ mud. Pluff being the marshland mud unique to the lowcountry.
Pluff Mud : Pluff mud or “plough mud,” depending on the century of your birth, is an oozy, viscous, dark-brown miasma. The origin and the accompanying smell is the rare confluence of abundant life and death. (Charleston Magazine)

Alligators don’t mind it at all. Neither do people if you are born here.
Think of the worse low tide ever…perfume compared to Pluff.