Although anything but comparable, a mudflat hike does have certain similarities to road cycling. In this work the slowest hikers on a mudflat hike have formed a group, the grupetto as it called in road cycling, and arrive commonly at their destination just in time, before the sea fog finally rolls in, the tidal creeks become raging torrents, and the tide comes in. Behind them lies an hour-long hike at low tide across the exposed seabed in the middle of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. And as in road cycling, the broom wagon (here a horse-drawn carriage) has picked up those who are too exhausted to continue walking.