How do you beat the secret of the dirty lake on Super Mario Sunshine?

Answer 1

The first bit is easy, you just travel to the cave behind the windmill as shown in the cut scene. Jump on a lily pad and use FLUDD's water to drift around. When you get inside, you'll just have to keep trying to scale the platforms.

You are absolutely right, the first part is a piece of pudding(I just made the pudding thing up). It is so hard I thing that it was my least favorite part of the game. I took me like 50 tries just to get have way through it. Once I got through it though a wave of relief washed over me.