Please help! Am I softlocked?

[Dead Planets and Live TV]

I'm in the bit after inserting the sword into the cog. This isn't my first playthrough, so for funsies I skipped getting the camera and the boat ride for the fast travel, and just entered the factory through the hidden entrance next to Sneaker Hut.

But I can't get back into the factory with just the watering can! I never activated the drill, and now I have no way of getting to the hotel to enter with the camera, and no way of entering through the Sneaker Hut entrance because there's a pot blocking my way.

I never got the boatwood, and if I did, I couldn't activate the generators without a sword, so I can't even get back to the hotel or anything...

Is there anything else I can do to get back inside the factory and finish the playthrough?

[Halfshell]

You aren't softlocked if you have flippers. I assume you spawn from the desert house so these directions are from there. Go left, pass the bull and go through the snake temple. Theres a path through them that doesn't need a sword. Go south through the river and save at the starting house. Next go south and hug the coast around the bushes to the west. Go north to the inn and hug the coast to get passed the trees north. Now you are at the tavern, can enter the factory from the mines and I assume you know where to go from there.

If you don't have flippers then I want to know how you got into the factory without flippers through the hidden entrance.

[Dead Planets and Live TV]

Ah!!
Thank you so much, it worked perfectly!

[TiiR]

Hello, I'm in a similar situation, except I never set the bombs off at the mines, so I can't get past the scorpion! (second run)

[Halfshell]

@Trurkowski: If you have flippers you can still get the camera to get into the factory.

If you need detailed directions, then (follow above directions until) when you get to your house go back north, go northwest and cross the river over the broken bridge. Camera is an easy grab, but you can't use the shortcut so go back southeast over the river (and broken bridge) to your house. Then go south and hug coast west. Then north to the arcade and hug coast north around the side. You'll reach the tavern and can cross the river over this, other (broken?*) bridge and can show the camera to get past the factory guard.

Edit: Can't verify myself (as I lost my saves), but I am 90% sure you can cross the river (over the broken bridge) to grab the camera in second run without taking damage as I remember doing it myself.

*Not sure, but I think its a stone draw bridge controlled by levers a good 30 yards away.

Edit2: Hey wait a second.. how did you get into the factory to lose the sword.. if you never nabbed flippers!? Because you have to go through the mines, to the otherside (factory side) of the river (before the bridge is 'lowered') to talk to the frog dude who stays at the tavern to get the flippers!? (Secret side(s) need(s) flippers!)

Also: Nvm, the camera seems to be replaced with a 'press pass' in second run (still works though).