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"I recently saw an excellent trick to extract yourself from such a situation on an Australian video on Youtube. What you do is tie a branch of wood..." This isn't it but same thing...

They're doing better than the Arizona (where I now live) desert tortoise. I used to see them back in the 70's and 80's but never any more. They are now considered a threatened species. I used to see a lot more wildlife when I went hiking in the desert back then than I do now - gila monsters...

When I used to travel around the Barrens starting in the late sixties that's all I had something like that, a gas station road map (they used to be free and on racks in the gas stations). Later I ordered by mail geological survey maps. Some of those had not been updated very recently. I...

Oh, now they tell me!

That's disgusting. Years ago when I used to go down there I never saw anything like that. Never. Once, though, I met a a feller way back in the Plains who flagged me down. His car, a VW Fastback, was buried in deep sand. He said it was just stuck there but when I offered to try to help him...

Photo came out a little darker and harder to see on here than on the original. He's tucked up in his shell. Are they still around?

I don't know what they were doing in Turkey. See what one at Batsto? Great steam tractor photo above. I like steam powered vehicles, especially locomotives. Hey, I bet I'm the only guy you know who once was offered a job working in a steam locomotive repair shop! ,Just like in "Danger...

"You may be thinking of the movie "Key Largo" Oh yeah, I'm confusing them, duh. But as I recall the African Queen was parked in Key West way back then...I think...maybe. Anyway, I've never seen it in person and I've been to Key Largo a number of times since, but, as I said, the last was about...

""The African Queen" , Just love that boat!Been in the Real Queen once. Her home port is in Key Largo." Is it really? I first went down to Key Largo in 1973. They told us the famous movie was actually filmed in Key West, and I think they said the African Queens was there too. I was last down...

Interesting thread! I'm sorry to hear that the water level is dropping so much in the PB. The great Pine Barrens aquifer is one of the things that John McPhee talked about in his famous book, and how the water down there was all good to drink. And for Halloween: Long ago, two days after...

I photofixed the last one a bit. I guess the mod can move these pictures into a new thread...Sorry to hijack the bobwight thread...I remember those birds waking up in the morning camping, backpacking, out in the middle of the woods...or was that whipoorwills I remember? Duh. Whatever they...

1990 - the trees are already getting taller PS I should have made a new thread - the changing Pine Barrens Plains...

May 1976 again

May 1976

Here's another one of me in the Plains, Sep 22, 1971.

Same here. And as for the trees getting much taller, see my avatar. That's me in the Plains back in the early 70's, towering over the whole dwarf forest, like Paul Bunyan!

Great photos. I sure do miss that place. Frogs: I remember camping out by Bamber Lake one summer night - we slept in the car actually - 1970 I think - 44 years ago - the croaking of the frogs was so loud - I don't think you can hear it like that anyplace any more - the world amphibian...

Some people think that film is too new-fangled, and they are still making tintypes and daguerrotype photographs!

But #7 says buy strike anyplace matches. Those matches have not been sold in stores for many years. You can, however, still buy them online, like from amazon.