FAA Tower Area

[bobpbx]

A couple years ago I posted a photo of one of the clay mudholes on the road in back of the tower. It covered the entire road. Now, not so much, but the water is still there, and still evident in all the clay holes on that road. I went back very far today. Here is that hole again.

There are a lot of little go-arounds that took me back further, to this point below:

This is obviously a big hunting spot, where they go with their little tracker vehicles (for lack of a better word). The clay holes back here still have the water that fell during the Jamestown Settlement.

I followed some of their trails into the swamps and found this Chip and Dale era trailer.

Nobody home at the time.

About 75 yards further back, his cameral took a photo of me as I considered eating from his bait pile.

On the way out I took a walk in the pond that you see on beaver dam road, where the Oswego crosses the road. I made it to the island easy.

 

[Pan]

Bobpbx - Those levered windows in the cab of the abandoned trailer were the best kind. I used to use the shell in the back of my pickup truck as a camper, but they stopped making levered windows for them. The levered windows were best because you could leave them open or partially open in the rain and still get fresh air.

 

[bobpbx]

I want to add something puzzling. The elevation here is 82 feet only 500 feet from the Oswego. It's kind of a high lowland. For reference, Harrisville lake, where the oswego enters, is just 14 feet in elevation. Here on this sand road, I kept seeing what looked like solid stone, very dark in color. Some were big stones, about 1 foot long (at least the part I could see, did not dig it up), but some were kind of like plate-rock, as shown below. Interesting to me to ponder what went on to get that here. It's wet cause I just rinsed clay off it.

 

[Teegate]

It's wet cause I just rinsed clay off it.

The puddles do have their advantages

 

[bobpbx]

Guy, (or any of you reading this) without looking at a map at all before you answer; if you drove past the tower area on Beaver Dam Road, and went all the way to the Red Road, which cardinal direction would you be driving on Beaver Dam Road to get to the red road.

 

[Rooftree]

My guess is southwest. Why would you want to ask that?

 

[bobpbx]

My guess is southwest. Why would you want to ask that?

I will tell you after Guy chimes in.

 

[Teegate]

I say west

 

[bobpbx]

I have a bad sense of direction without the use of a gps or compass. I wanted to see if anyone else was as bad as me, as it would make me feel better. I've been down that road over a hundred times, and I always assumed it to be WSW. But except for that turn by the bridge, it is in fact NW.