Mudder Wet Path is a funny little part of the East Coast Trail in Aquaforte. If you’ve never heard of it, I think it’s because it was officially added to the Spurwink Path, which I don’t really like because Spurwink is already a long section of trail, so I think a lot of people skip the Mudder Wet section of it when they do it (which was the case for me when I did Spurwink). My ECT map collection is quite old, from when Mudder Wet Path was considered it’s own section of the trail, so I did a double header in June 2023 and did Mudder Wet and Caplin Bay Path on the same day, since they’re both pretty short.

The Mudder Wet section runs from Aquaforte to the trailhead of the Spurwink Path off the highway. It’s under 2km if you do it one way, but it can be extended up to 5.5km if you do it as a round trip with some of the side trails (which is how I did it). I parked in Aquaforte and hiked out to the beach at Little River where the Aquaforte River meets the ocean. The official trail does a big roundabout back to the highway to hike around the ravine where Little River comes down, before returning the beach on the other side of little River. Then you can continue up along the river to the highway where you connect with Spurwink.

I hiked down to the beach on the way in and found a side trail that hikes up along Little River to a waterfall. It’s a nice little hike – I was hoping it would connect back to the official trail, but because of the steep walls of the ravine, I had to hike back to the beach and do the full roundabout. I continued the long way and did the whole trail back to Spurwink, but on the way back I decided to try and save myself some time. I hiked back down to the beach at Little River and crossed the river instead of hiking back up around it. The river was flowing low enough and the tide was way out, so I was able to cross without taking my shoes off. So it can be done, but I’m not sure how frequently. I think if it was high tide it might not be crossable at all.

So it’s a small little trail, but I ended killing more than an hour and a half there with all the exploring. I decided to include my GPS track below for reference since the descriptions can be pretty confusing. I wouldn’t put this trail very high up my list of trails to do on the ECT, but it was one I needed to do to complete the trail and I had a nice time hiking it solo. There are really nice views of Aquaforte Harbour.