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    Wading The Sleeper, And Other Interesting Places

    Guy, the videos work now.i think i was not giving them time to load. great video:-) Al
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    Wading The Sleeper, And Other Interesting Places

    your right guy, i thought it was arum.they look similar but the tubers or arrowhead should be edible just cooked and not dried.we would not have to worry about starving in that swamp. I'm going to have to figure out how to tell those two apart.arum is much more common down here. Al
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    Thompson's Beach, Shellpile, and Bivalve

    yeah my problem is a wife that likes to cook as much as i like to eat and just sitting around too much makes you feel old.i need to go out and get full of ticks at least twice a week to feel alive:-) Al
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    Thompson's Beach, Shellpile, and Bivalve

    sounds like fightin words to me:-)
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    Thompson's Beach, Shellpile, and Bivalve

    Jeff the topo map says that is Morris beach.I've been close to it and no doubt seen it from the bridge but have never been in there.was it heavily posted with signs that say MINE! ? AL
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    Thompson's Beach, Shellpile, and Bivalve

    Jim remember we were discussing the pileings across the channel at the east end of the beach how that is no doubt where they breached the dikes.well the historical aerials verifys it.if you go to 1972 or earlier it is all one beach with road,houses and everything.also at this time their was...
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    another barren night

    tulpehocken means turtle creek. hocken,hawken,hickin are all variations of an lenape word that meant stream.tulpa supposedly came from a word meaning turtle.there is a tulpehocken creek in pa too.wissahickon has the same word in it spelled differently. Al
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    Green snake

    any girl that will grab a snake is way cool in my book:-)
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    Thompson's Beach, Shellpile, and Bivalve

    Ben, That posted sign was a good find.I remember trying to explore thompsons when people were still living there.As you approached the beach there were very large signs saying keep out and this means you and there were peopl coming out onto their decks looking at melike what are you doing...
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    Getting Away

    now i see why vermont keeps dragging you back.UP michigna and west virginia do the same to me. Al
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    A slow drift down the Mullica

    i guess you never noticed me batting my eyes at you that time up by chatsworth lake and you probably never even noticed when i was tying my boot how i hiked my britches leg up and exposed a little more calf then necessary.so naive:-) I've been told that i take that bit about loving my fellow...
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    waiting on frogs

    i have been known to run around and squeeze frog toes to make them sing:-)
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    A slow drift down the Mullica

    yeah that ole evolutions a purty intelligent dude
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    July Pine Plains

    I was looking at orange milkwort just yesterday and was wondering what it was.i had no camera to photoit and no book to identify it.glad you solved that riddle for me Bob. also that last pic is classic plains.looks like where we were walking that last trip we took there. Al
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    Thompson's Beach, Caviar

    they must have fixed the road since i was there.i remember it being a very slow go because of the potholes last time i was there. Al
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    July Pine Plains

    by the silouhette it is definitely either a whipoorwill,nighthawk or chuck wills widow.we are at the extreme northern limit of the chuck and I've only heard a few in my life.I have never seen a nighthawk but think I've heard em before.by all logical evidence I'd say it's a classic profile of a...
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    waiting on frogs

    I swears they was greys,pbtf's and greens when i was there last week.the greys were calling outside my winder last night.wonder why they wasn't there too?that is a purty area.i was there at night.never seen the ponds before.I feel so unneeded now.Whip went to an officially new place without me...
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    Thompson's Beach, Caviar

    Jim, I didn't remember any houses out there and like i said,last time i was there i knew nothing of the caviar operation so wasn't looking for any railroad tracks.you dod pretty good for not having any county maps.i remember having to make a lot of turns getting there.Did you make a venture...
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    Green snake

    half a dozen of them in my life.unfortunately one had just been run over on a sand road like that one in the pic.the last one i caught was two years ago in wv at over 4000 ft elevation.my wife just about stepped on him in the grass and never seen him.i was behind her and noticed a green vine in...
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    Music for the day

    yes it was ashame the man didn't live to jam on.he was one awesome axe player
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