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I tuck my trousers into white socks and spray the socks with DEET for ticks. I've never been troubled with chiggers, not that I know of. Maybe they are some nice new thing down there since I stopped haunting those woods years ago. As for the shirt - duh, I never thought of that - and yes indeed...

I'm here from the southwest conducting an inspection tour of the northeast, and today Guy aka Teagate and Jessica gave me a great tour of my wonderful old Pine Barren haunts. PS Guy is one awesome sand driver!

I would have liked to gone to that. That great book was a big influence on me. I first started going down to the Barrens after reading a terrific article in the NY Times travel section about "those windswept pines" - an article that I posted on here a while back - and then I read McPhee's book...

Wow! Awesome!

"The box turtles, lizards, snapping turtles, frogs, whippoorwills, bob whites are all quiet now." Where have all the Pine Barrens night sounds gone? Are the whippoorwills still singing? Have coyotes extended their range down there yet? Out here in the west you hear the coyotes singing at...

Gorgeous photos. I sure do miss those woods - except for the ticks.

Those are giant-sized ticks! Argh! I hate those things!

Wow, that's a beautiful map! I need to study it to see what I can relate to and try to find some familiar landmarks. I opened it OK with Firefox. I generally use FF or Opera.

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There is some kind of large facility already there (see attachment). It appears to be large and functioning, whatever it is, so I doubt it they want to build it there. They probably want to build it in the woods.

I explored those woods from 1969 I think it was - right after that article appeared in the travel section of the NY Times - the one about the "windswept pines" - I posted it on here - through the mid 1990's when I moved west, plus some memorable forays down there since. Actually though I...

Yes!

I love dandelions. They are loaded with vitamins.

Beautiful! My two favorites are Window View and Night Awakens. I'm out in the desert too. There was an unusual celestial sight last week, the crescent moon and Jupiter. I took photos of it, but just with my pocket camera. I'm sure there are far better ones online.