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    waiting on frogs

    must you always highlight my bald spot?I think you enjoy it all those years i kept reminding you of yours. Alfie
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    The Ladies and the Snake

    pine snakes are on the threatened list Glo.not as bad as endangered but their habitat should be protected.they will only live in areas of sugar sand so are strictly a barrens snake.the dead snak was a black rat and quite common.an everywhere snake that likes to climb trees and gets over six feet...
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    Great Swamp Branch & Nescohague Creek, A PBX Hike

    Eastern mud turtle.He's probably thinking how special he is that you guys came all the way out there just to visit him:-) Al
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    Tuesday with Alfie

    I am back from the flood! Almost crushed by a hydroplate and nearly eaten by a varve but I emerged from the swamp victorious looking like i just crawled out from under a rock which is how any caver worth his guano should look like.I have layers of sedimentary ooze deposited in seconds replete...
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    Swamp Monster

    Jim, I'd say the first plant you couldn't identify is pyxie moss and the second in the tree would be wysteria.the pyxie is native but the wysteria was no doubt planted my man or escaped from a planted plant.it only grows in nj where it has been planted hence it is what i term a people plant and...
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    Little Bird

    since when do you listen to music with actual spoken lyrics in it? I actually like this song.thought it was the beatles at first of whom I disagree with almost every song they've ever written on a philosophical level but can't help liking their music all the same.terrible lyrics with beautiful...
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    Pink is up!

    I used to have a bumper sticker that said "proud to be a piney from my nose down to my hiney. I just retailored the ditty to fit Oji since he is a Japiney which is something like a flatwwods oriental hillbilly. Alfie
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    another barren night

    little sissy frog.fraid of a little rain. that frog needs to man up! or should i say frog up!
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    Pink is up!

    Oji is Japiney from his nose down to his Jahiney Alfie
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    another barren night

    whip, supposed to rain saturday night.no frog in their right mind would be out in the rain....would they? Alfie
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    another barren night

    my wife is the third member.Will number four stand up?????
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    Snake ID

    No not at all.snakes are best caught,examined,species detrmined,sex if possible and then either eaten on the spot or released.your choice. Al
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    Snake ID

    if i didn't know this was taken at batsto lake I'd say it was a california kingsnake.The coloring (black and white) and the pattern say cal king.the eastern native king has buch more black and a faint chain pettern.The pattern appears much too regular to be a pine and pines are brown and white...
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    April at Friendship Bogs

    he is definitely not lying.There is a large bog that the carpenters (not the musical family)rule the night.They will drive you away as if being physically hammered right out of the bog. you can hear the roar of this bog a quarter mile away perhaps further. Al
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    another barren night

    Guy I figure if I can first get her shoes off then the possibilities are endless:-) Al
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    In Search of Calico

    that can of paint thinner has sat right there for at least two years.I waded that nasty hole and have a funny story to go with that day as well and i have also taken the long round about way you did to get there.the long trip is worth it not to have to wade the hole. Al
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    Tuesday with Alfie

    Oji, I resemble that remark. Alfie
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    Kayaking the Upper Great Egg Harbor River

    yes gertler basically made it down sleeper creek from 206 to westcoat bogs and then pushed into the great swamp.after a couple hours he realized his mistak and had to drag his boat back out of the swamp and at almost dark he ran into some duck hunters at wescoat bog and the gave him a ride back...
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    Kayaking the Upper Great Egg Harbor River

    I have the first edition of this book and didn't realize it was ever updated.let me say I have tried many of the psiible trips he has listed at the end of the book and many of them are not doable.Several are doable but very rough and at least one is quite doable and several I have never...
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    Kayaking the Upper Great Egg Harbor River

    whipoorbill and I did the entire great egg from new brooklyn lake down to lake lenape back in 85.the section from new brooklyn lake was horrendous.looked as if it had never been cleared.it took us all day to get from the put in to winslow williamstown road.we had left the second vehicle at piney...
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