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    Best Kayaking/Canoeing Lakes in Pines?

    I"ve always just flipped my canoe over against a tree and have had it since the age of sixteen but then again it's aluminum and has proven indestructible.had it wrapped around a rock once.took it home and jumped up and down in it and it's good as knew.Wish someone could do that to my back.Jump...
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    Best Kayaking/Canoeing Lakes in Pines?

    My best friends dad caught the state record bass in menantico Ponds in 1980 https://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/reclmbass.htm it still stands
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    Beware: The giant hogweed lurks

    Looks like Queen Annes lace on steroids.In flower i should have no problem identifying it.Gotta learn what it looks like when young
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    Best Kayaking/Canoeing Lakes in Pines?

    Toothy when I used to canoe the wading I"d do from Speedwell to beaver Branch and take out there but then I found Charcoal landing on the topo and went to see if I could drive there and I could! I started taking the extra 45 minutes to take out there and yes below Beaver Branch it's tidal and...
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    Best Kayaking/Canoeing Lakes in Pines?

    If your looking for a long ride the best Cumberland County has to offer would be Menantico Ponds wma.it's a maze of old sand ponds attached to Menantico Creek.there are ponds above and below the trestle (trestle must be lined under) and you can follow the creek downstream to the Maurice but...
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    Who comes up with these idea's?

    My advice would be to quit building on low lying coastal lands.perhaps a ban on building under 20 ft in elevation?Come on folks,the ice is melting,I"ve seen the swamps moving back keeping pace with the shoreline right here on Delaware bay in my 50 short years.The waves pounded and the seas...
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    Who comes up with these idea's?

    The Army Corps of Engineers has flooded more caves then I can imagine.They also have flooded several of my family's graveyards in eastern KY.They supposedly dug up all the bodies and put them in the new Yatesvilel cemetery on top of the hill.My question is how do you dig up a body thats been in...
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    Who comes up with these idea's?

    Great! All those ships running from the storm headed for a safe harbor will run into a steel wall and that will be it for them.But Hey! No ones property will suffer loss!
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    Cumberland County Arrowheads

    12,000 years of stone tool manufacture? he's going to present everything twice? ! :-)
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    Cumberland County Arrowheads

    pECKING ACTUALLY WORKS BETTER ON QUARTZ.PECKING IS WHEN YOU STRIKE A ROCK OBLIQUELY AND TRY TO KNOCK OFF CHIPS TO SHAPE A ROCK.YOU CAN MAKE GROOVES IN GRANITE AND SHAPE HAMMERSTONES AND SUCH BY PECKING AND KEEPING THE ROCK WET WHERE YOUR PECKING HELPS TO CRUSH INDIVIDUALlY GRAINS AND SLOWLY OH...
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    Cumberland County Arrowheads

    It is definitely not of a local material.The only suitable local material would be quartz and my firend has found some nice quartz points here as well and i found a nice pink quartz bird point out here about 30 years ago.This point looks to be some typ of flint.True flint is only found in the...
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    Cumberland County Arrowheads

    The smallest point on left was found along a gas pipe line.The broken point on right was found in a creek and the Middle point was found today in the Honey Hole which is a part of the same creek the right point was found in.The gas line was very nearby as well.I found all three but the middle...
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    Dangerous Things

    Thats a good point.Where this disease was contracted is exactly across the river from Shell Pile/Bivavlve and yes that area does stink to high heaven.If they do flush it into the river it could get into the mudflats across the river and infect marsh life that people are eating like crabs and...
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    Any info on Swain's Stopping Place

    I have a Swain uncle (by marriage) from Dividing Creek and I am descended from the Steelmans of Atlantic county.My direct line grandmother Ellen Steelman is buried at head of the River.Chest high tombstone right next to SE corner of church
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    Portuguese man-of-war washes ashore in Wildwood Crest

    Looks like one to me Bob.I have seen them along the bay shore a few times with their gas floats.
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    Portuguese man-of-war washes ashore in Wildwood Crest

    My Mom pulled me over to the lifeguard and asked Him what to do for it.He said put isopropyl alcohol on it.She said give me some.He said we don't have any.Mom flipped a biscuit.I learned a few new words that day.Mom is an excellent educator.
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    Portuguese man-of-war washes ashore in Wildwood Crest

    https://whyy.org/articles/portuguese-man-of-war-washes-ashore-in-wildwood-crest/ Had one of these bastards wash around my ankle while me and Mom were walking the beach in Fort lauderdale back in 76.Worst pain i think I have ever experienced.I hate them
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    Bridgeton teen drowns at Menantico Ponds

    https://www.thedailyjournal.com/story/news/2018/07/02/bridgeton-teen-drowns-menantico-ponds/750996002/
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    Periglacial talk at the Tuckerton Historical Society

    I thought Blue Holes were man made sand mines???
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