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    Key's Sandwash--Menantico Ponds?

    is the Stone House your referring to the old Wheaton mansion along the road to the floating dock? The one with the double chimneys ? the western chimney fell into the house a few years ago. And yes Loon Pond has turned into the party hole.The state boys have cameras along the road back there and...
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    Cape May Wildlife Refuge Expands

    http://www.philly.com/philly/health/477-acre-cape-may-property-to-become-wildlife-refuge-20180207.html?mobi=true
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    The Death Of A Pine Barren Explorer

    Renegade Camping! I never knew Guy! Is that a TV hooked up to a propane canister?
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    A turn towards Roman law

    Never been a big fan of Rome but am in favor of beach access.Could this be Murphy's law working in our favor?
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    Planning a Batona Trail Thru Hike

    On a fire tower? Now thats an idea! Much too old for that now though:-( Have a cousin who claims the deed in a tree. I"d be terribly frightened of splinters in wayward places!
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    Planning a Batona Trail Thru Hike

    I wonder if they were smart enough to use dog crap as bait or if they landed there to lick salt and took advantage of the flies when they showed up? I don't know if insects crave salt like mammals do?
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    BYERS: Murphy a breath of fresh air

    Circle the SUV"s Check your powder. We have no King and do not ascribe to Murphy"s Law.
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    Planning a Batona Trail Thru Hike

    I don't think hornets eat pollen and they don't make honey.They eat insects and spiders. I wonder if it was cool out and perhaps the sun was warming the steel slightly and they were on the steel or warmth?
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    Planning a Batona Trail Thru Hike

    A couple of theories.Could it be the orange paint the towers is painted with.Bees and wasps see color very well,perhaps they like orange? Could it have been an electrically charged day?Thunderstorms in the air? perhaps they were sensing a charge from the tower and they all clustered to it to die...
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    Planning a Batona Trail Thru Hike

    Many animals like making a meal out of wasp larvae.Bear, Skunk,Possum.I"d think a bear would withstand the stings and a skunk might be able to gas em out? I don't know if a possum could take the attack with it's thin scraggly fur?
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    Planning a Batona Trail Thru Hike

    I can't find that particular video anymore.he was concerned because he had young boys and it was near his house and he was concerned that they wouldn't listen to him and do what young boys do.I think his purpose was to show how vicious they were and he said He would be removing them the next...
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    Planning a Batona Trail Thru Hike

    Have you seen the youtube video where a nest of them attack a video camera after the camera man from a pickup truck reaches out with a pole and smacks the nest a few times.They were audibly bouncing off the camera from the pickup truck six feet or so away.He aggravated them and they were ready...
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    Key's Sandwash--Menantico Ponds?

    The area that the links I posted make claim that the Key Sand Wash is in the area known as Maurice River Bluffs today and was known in my day as Wheaton Wharf and the Grain Elevator.This would be exactly across the Maurice River from Menantico WMA along Silver Run Rd.There is an old large pit...
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    Key's Sandwash--Menantico Ponds?

    Okay I have some info sent to me by my anonymous "old head" Problem is my "old head" is a bit younger then i am.You know what this means don't you? means I"m on the down side of the hill myself. In any case before i build momentum and lose control let me copy and paste the info he sent me.By the...
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    This is an obit to die for

    He's a tough old bird Bob. he's waiting on a fake leg now and raising hell he's missing striper season.He's on crutches and driving with his left leg.He doesn't know when to quit.Never has.
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    This is an obit to die for

    A few months older then my dad who is now as of last month predeceased by his right leg:-(
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    Key's Sandwash--Menantico Ponds?

    I must say i have never heard of Keys Sand Wash and I know Menantico pretty well. I"ll ask around, Some old heads down here that might know something about it.Then again at 53 I guess I"m officially an "old head" myself now.
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    Pushing and Searching

    Well if the state burns your house down the mansion is yours! But then again who would want to leave the Barrens for Princeton? I"ve been to both and there is no contest. Well Princeton did have some real nice scenery,but it was all off limits to me:-)
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    Pushing and Searching

    If it takes out your house there is always the Governors mansion in Trenton:-)
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    What Operating system are you using

    I don't have a phone but I do occasionally go on the forum from my kindle
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