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Here's a new one, olive oil. Definitely nicer on the skin than gasoline. I don't know if it would really work though. The tick might just eat it. http://olivecrazy.com/2011/04/26/banish-ticks-with-olive-oil/ I should really butt out of this topic and leave it to the contemporary Pineys who...

Re "corkscrew turn..." "Do not use a twisting or jerking motion to remove the tick." http://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0815/p643.html Yeah I figured that out for myself, but twisting is what they were telling us to do last season, or still are.

SJ, That looks to me like another one of the newfangled tick removal tricks that might break the ticks head off inside your body. IMK, Yes, good plan I think, and I usually have some nail Polish remover stored away in my truck (someplace, I think) because it's a good solvent, like for...

Yep the old fashioned gasoline method sounds better all the time. Dip your rag into the gas tank and wet it a little and apply it to the ticks and they wiggle their cute little behinds and come right out. The book I read said they also regurgitate their tick juice on the way but I don't think...

Good posts! The Pines Barrens stayed the same but after they turned Atlantic City into Las Vegas the drive down from Manhattan was different. The Turnpike was much more crowded and the down home country music radio stations I used to be able to pick up on my old dial radio were gone. There...

I am rereading John McPhee's great book again. It was written just a year or two before i first started driving down the Jersey Turnpike with my backpacking and camping gear to explore that extraordinary place in the world. This thread is eleven years old. What are the current thoughts on the...

"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