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This is much ado about nothing I guess, but here is the "shadow" enlarged. The texture of the so-called shadow looks like water with little wavelets compared to the adjoining "mud". Different surface. Also, judging by the sunlight and shadows on the leaves and branches it seems to be midday...

Yes, Bobpbx, that's what I'm speaking of, what u r calling a shadow, except your encircled area goes too high. What looks like a stream of water gets lost in the grass around and above that horizontal branch. "You can still see the water behind the shadow." Don't know what u mean by "behind...

No, I don't think it is something solid like a tree or pipe, or a camera artifact, or a shadow. It looks like water to me, a small trench, most likely a stream. The rest of what looks like a wide stream may be mud - or maybe it's an underground pipe related to that raised trail. If I wasn't...

The shadow of what? I don't see anything there to cast that long shadow. Also, It looks like it was mid-day with the sun coming from high overhead. Also, I think there's more vegetation in the dark place than the light. I think it's a trench.

My response seems to have gotten itself attached to the wrong post. I meant to attach it to Dash Ryan's photo (post #39).

What's that almost vertical dark thing? Is that a fallen tree, or a pipe, or a depression in the ground?

Possibly, as I didn't go down that far south. I went up north to the intriguing big green mostly blank spot on the Esso or Mobilgas road map centered around Chatsworth, Rt 72, 539, down to Batsto. I don't believe John McPhee mentioned turkeys in his late 1960s book, The Pine Barrens either. I...

I never saw a turkey in the PB in the old days.

Turkey dinner coming to you for Thanksgiving!

I would think that smaller birds would be more effective at killing off ticks (the one outdoor thing I'm afraid of, especially in the NJPB!). A tiny tick isn't worth the energy expenditure of bending down the head to grab it for a big animal like a goose or turkey. Flood the place with little...

I loved the NJPB - except for one thing, the ticks. I've had so many on and in me! I've been in other bad tick places, but the PB was the worst. I rarely if ever felt them on me. People with more sensitive skin may have. My brother had Lyme disease. I used to extract them with a bit of...

Right! Very good. It's in the California desert. I was just kidding. I found it on my gps years ago, and when i was in the vicinity i went to find it and took that picture. Well, it's not exactly the Champs Elysees, but I'm rather proud of it, named after me, sort of. Plenty of free parking...

A few of us guys took the long subway ride to Coney Island from Inwood in Manhattan when we were about 14 or 15. CI was still the old fashioned place with side shows, fat ladies, tattooed wild men from Borneo, and all those grifters running their phoney games. We got victimized. I remember one...

There used to be fire towers scattered around the woods north of NYC (where i lived) too. I remember climbing up one in the Shawangunks or Catskills or something in the mid sixties and talking to the fire ranger. I was thinking at the time that i wanted to be a forester. He told me he had...

I'm forgetting what's what down there, but I think that's the tower we camped not too far away from for four days in my tent in 1982...that one was not that far from Batsto, I think, and one night we drove out of the Barrens and spent an evening drinking beer in a biker bar somewhere and then...

That wonk wonk sound, and whippoorwills, brings back memories. Here is a road named after me (Pan is just my nom de plume...Larry Lief...everybody spells it wrong) that i found in the barrens:

I've got the HERE app on my phone and tablet. It gives me the worst driving directions! But I still use it more than the others because i'm sort of used to it and i've put a bunch of waypoints on it. I haven't found an app to even remotely take the place of my old Garmin 276.

Here in the desert too. Jet skis on the water too. Snowmobiles in the north. They messed up an area near Mesa (east of Phoenix, AZ), where i used to camp, so badly that they closed it off entirely. I don't like those things. I like muscle powered vehicles like bicycles and canoes. I saw what...