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  1. manumuskin

    Tar Kiln Locations?

    https://boydsmaps.com/#19.00/39.327365/-75.169818/lidar2022hd/0.00/0.00 This one got me.Its a big patch of Laurel
  2. manumuskin

    Tar Kiln Locations?

    so were the ones that I mistook for kilns and were laurel.Around here you will have open woods with kiln size patches of laurel in them.Deer often drop their fawns in them.They have foold me several times as kilns.Now a few of those you show are definitely kilns.Classic donut with a trench...
  3. manumuskin

    Where is this?

    the gate I have run up on to the south is here https://boydsmaps.com/#17.00/39.685844/-74.722605/pines1995/0.00/0.00 I came out of the rd just below it that leads back around to Rockwood.Soon as you come out of that rd the gate is visible to the right.
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    Tar Kiln Locations?

    I have been fooled by thick clusters of laurel that sometimes appear to be kilns.If it looks like a donut it's probably a kiln but if it looks like a fluffy round object not a defined donut it may be a laurel patch.
  5. manumuskin

    Where is this?

    There is almost no poison ivy on the Batsto,Wading or Mullica but for some reason Nescohague is full of it. So is this swamp https://boydsmaps.com/#15.00/39.752321/-74.737858/pines1949/0.00/0.00
  6. manumuskin

    Where is this?

    Thats a beach I used to take my dog many years ago.Don't get out that way very often now with the road being closed off in both directions.I was out that way last year,managed to get through the Rockwood route since the last fire the fire folks plowed the road into decent shape.That area is...
  7. manumuskin

    Tar Kiln Locations?

    Wow! I"d say I see five there all strung out east to west.Have you went to them on the ground yet?
  8. manumuskin

    Where is this?

    https://boydsmaps.com/#18.00/39.646681/-74.659479/hereHybrid/0.00/0.00 This is Bare Ass Beach.I know this from personal experience back in 78. I heard the name later and realized it fits. https://boydsmaps.com/#18.00/39.646681/-74.659479/hereHybrid/0.00/0.00
  9. manumuskin

    Where is this?

    actually thats good.I was getting perturbed thinking they closed it off since I"ve been there.Someone also left a grill at my dog beach too
  10. manumuskin

    Where is this?

    Matter of fact last time I was there I think I remember that grill being left there
  11. manumuskin

    Where is this?

    https://boydsmaps.com/#17.00/39.671398/-74.536183/njgin2007i/0.00/0.00 Right here. One of my dog beaches and if they have closed it down I will just unclose it.My favorite dog beach actually. I may be wrong but it looks like our beach.if so you can walk across there knee deep and gravelly.To...
  12. manumuskin

    Batona Trail Dirt Road Widened?

    No doubt there are dollar signs involved.
  13. manumuskin

    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    and this is exactly why I dont go to the bluffs anymore
  14. manumuskin

    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    https://thesurveystation.com/2023/01/05/the-benchmark-hunting-section-of-geocaching-com-is-gone/ Here is a link to an article written by someone who is as pissed as I am but more eloquent of speech.I painstakenly recovered and recorded about fifty benchmarks on that site and just like that poof...
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    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=JU3353 Here is the datasheet for the benchmark.Unfortunately I have just discovered they have taken all the Benchmarks off the Geocaching website.They made a page with all kind of excuses for doing so.The said it doesn't fit in with their...
  16. manumuskin

    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    Walk from the parking lot through the gate and stay on the road past the mansion and when it comes time to bear left for the floating dock don't bu continue straight down the hill to the river and then bend with the road to the right and just as you round the bend there should be or used to be...
  17. manumuskin

    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    7th grade in 62! I wasn't even to make my debut for another two years! Suddenly I feel like a youngun agin!
  18. manumuskin

    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    Now I really suck and Penmanship,punctuation and just general paragraph structure but I was always the best speller in class.If you see a mistake here it's like a typing error which I also suck at.I never paid much mind in English glass thinking I can read a write and speak english why do I need...
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    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    I don't know the name of the sand operation but I think what your thinking of with the letter P might be Pettinos? Pettinos used to own the land and I heard he was from Philly.If you look on the old topos there is a Benchmark there down by the river named Pettinos.It is still there and in good...
  20. manumuskin

    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    Yes these supported Rails that were used to haul sand out on rail cars to the river from the pits closer to the road and the sand/gravel was hauled out by boat.This is what I"ve been told by folks older then ,e.Don't know where they got that info from though. I have wondered if they were...
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