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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...
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    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...
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    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!
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    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...
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    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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    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    I must say since I have been drinking the spring since age five it obviously is not the Fountain of Youth
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    Halloween at Maurice River Bluffs Preserve

    The big oak five pics down has a piece of small Gage RR track imbedded in it seven ft off the ground.It would be visible in the pic I believe but it's taken from too far back. The pilings three pics from bottom I used to dive and do flips off of as a kid and early twenties.I could pull two off...
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    Colonial Revolutionary History and Post Revolutionary History Volumes

    https://archive.org/search?query=colonial+revolutionary+history+new+jersey I just found these books on Archive.org. I never knew they existed but was doing genealogy on Ancestry and there was a Pic of the fron page of one of these volumes.Don't know how many volumes there are yet but they are...
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    Whispering Pines

    Yep very nocturnal hence the huge eyes which is why the one I saw in broad daylight shocked me.I have seen them at night too heard one in the leaves once and then found it with a flashlight.
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    Whispering Pines

    But we do have southern flying squirrels.I"ve seen several myself including one in broad daylight at Menantico.
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    Whispering Pines

    Truffles do grow underground but I have seen them dug up and these look like them,weather they grow above ground or not I do not know.have never found any myself.
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    Whispering Pines

    I"m no expert but your bottom photo looks like a truffle.If so It would be edible but then again as Bob says don't eat it because I said it might be so.I know maybe twenty kinds I can identify good enough I"d risk eating them but all wild mushrooms have to be cooked or even edible ones are...
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    Where is this?

    Yes I remember the old log you had to walk across.Bridge is much safer now.
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    Where is this?

    I"ve passed it a hundred times but never knew it was a bow club till you told me so.Never would have thought it was that long ago that it burnt down either.You'd think it woulda finished falling down by now.
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    Ticks & Chiggers--a study

    Always referred to my dads ghostly white legs as chicken legs.Somebody ate one of them,he only has one left:-(
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    Ticks & Chiggers--a study

    gallon of epsom salts in a bath as hot as you can stand it.Scratch em till their bloody when you hit the water.It will dry em out.May have to repeat a second time or just go swimming in the ocean
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    Bathymetric Data Site

    https://www.gebco.net/ a site dedicated to mapping the ocean floor and making it available to us
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    Quite a hill

    I remember my cousin in his bronco and me in the passenger seat climbing the front of that hill.He got the front tires over the lip but one back tire came off the ground and he lost traction.The race backwards down the hill almost made me ruin my Fruit of the Looms. I told him you do know don't...
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    Chigged!

    A buddy of mine once got his chest covered laying in the grass photographing Mushrooms.I"ve had them in worse places.Hint they like hot sweaty places where clothing is tight
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