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O, Okay We teachers can get a little paranoid, sorry. About the Behr/bear thing. I haven't done a lesson plan in weeks and I miss it. Got to do something to keep the creative juices flowing...writing is my gig, verstehst du?

Lo and behold! A River Clearing! I just kayaked the Mullica from Atsion to Pleasant Mills today. Someone, was it a canoe rental outfit, was it a park ranger, chainsawed through a huge two foot diameter elm or maple that had lain across the river since last year. In fact, most of the...

Icon Fantasy Aww, c'mon, I always wanted to try that bear icon. It just seemed to work at the time.

Which predominates, though? :bear: Say, Behr 655, :bear: What's in that garbage can for you? :bear: Is the can half empty? :bear: Is the can half full? :bear: Do you hold back? :bear: Or dive right in? :bear: Is there a tax refund in there, Behr? :bear: Or a poem? :bear: Has the...

Friends, How do you fantasize about the Barrens? When you paddle through a cove of pond lilies and blue flag, crystal blue sky overhead, and swallows dipping down over your boat or red-winged blackbirds fluttering near you, and off in the distance you can hear the rushing chute over a...

Sand Roads..Paths...Clearings? Registered motor vehicles are allowed in Wharton on designated roads, but what does that mean? These dirtbike groups may be registered and enter the state forest on designated routes, but they don't stay there. And who is going to monitor them? Me.?.. Hey...

Motocross Extensions Take a walk sometime during the dragway's off-season, through the second entrance, the one nearest the Wharton State Forest sign. There is a special slalom course for dirtbikes on the left, and as you follow the sand road under the powerlines towards the Mullica, you...

Great Egg Nightmare! The Great Egg is a nightmare for kayakers. How did you survive? A friend and I did the Winslow Wildlife Management Area stretch from Williamstown Road down to Piney Hollow last summer. It took us 8 hours to do 2 miles. My friend, who was launching his newly built...

Cost of Wharton Acres Estates Our Central Record newspaper ad has the estates starting at $700,000. I drove out there last week to see what happened to my old Atquatqua access (notice I'm using the older designation, folks), and there were only two houses completed. Maybe they are so...

Best First Kayaking? Do you want to run a river or just try some ponds? Hmm, you might want to try paddling around Oswego Lake first to get your sealegs, then portage over the dam and run the lower Oswego through Martha Pond and take out at Harrisville Pond. It's an easy shuttle between...

Plenty of deer! Redux Well, padre, if I had to make up a story, I'd go with the double jubilation appellation: "Plenty of deer! Plenty of deer!" Sure beats Atlantic Tansport Company. Thanks, Bill W.

Aww, KenDawg, you de man...

Alquatka, alias Atco, Atco! Awesome research, Renee! I checked my Lenape-English dictionary, and thanks to your leads, found the Lenape word "Achtuhhu", meaning "plenty of deer". And indeed it is! My first snowshoeing trek there three winters ago was (foolishly) during deer season. There...

Ingles, Por Favor! Whoa..is this a graduate seminar in linguistics, archeology or geology? What does the name Alquatka have to do with this "overlapping" stuff? No comprende. I'm anxious to hear what your friend Alan has to say, though. Thanks, Bill W.

Alquatka Research Renee, Thanks for all the leads. I'm not quite sure how to use all of them (forwarded e-mail somewhat unclear) but I'll pursue. Are some of these websites? Thanks again, Bill W.

Renee, Don't go to all of the trouble of scanning the article..I'll take your word for it. Can I at least believe that the Great Manitou was/is real? Sort of feel the Great Manitou whenever I'm out in the Barrens..sort of calls me in. Sound strange? The Lenni Lenape felt that every...

Alquatka The walam olum a hoax? Ouch! I used to begin my American Lit classes (along with a Mashpee Indian ghost story and Ogalala Sioux myths) with it. Can I find the hoax article on the web? If you can contact your archeologist friend about the history of Alquatka, I'd love the...

I'm not familiar with the Coen-Crispin site. I went snoeshowing in Alquatka two winters ago via Red Onion Road in Shamong (off Atsion Road--now Wharton Acres development). Followed power lines to Alquatka and took a b/w photo with my Rolleiflex T (If I can scan it, I'll post it). Terraserver...

Can't find this in my Lenape-English dictionary. Google/Excite search only reveals a sub-sub-watershed of the upper Mullica. The Alquatka Branch flows through southern Medford and joins the Mullica in Shamong west of Jackson Road. Does anyone know the origin or history of Alquatka...

Exploring the Mechescatauxin Ed, Thanks for the info. Did the Mullica last Saturday when the levels were less than inviting? Must have been "bony"! I did the Wading with a friend in April when it was at flood stage--it was like one huge streaming bayou. I even surfed a few hydraulics...