The old saw mill sat immediately to your right.you can look along the shore and see the old foundation block with the bolts in it the diving board used to be attached to.The crik was much deeper then.Camp Hollybrook days back in the 70's
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PS if you cross the bridge immediately head south to the right or you will pass garrisons house.He thinks that all is his kingdom but once across the bridge he only owns the land on the left out to the black top but if you let him BS you he will have you thinking he owns it all,best just to avoid him and head right and you will get to pass through the boys half of Hollybrook.The girls lived on his side.. The old hut pads are buried but I know where their at and can dig down a few inches to concrete,also the old chapel remains just rr ties are along the swamp further south
I’ll try it tomorrow then. I’m around 218 give or take a hoagie.
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Thats the old diving board foundation.Dive there now you'll break your neck but it was deep back then.ziI don't know if they had dug it out or natural events made the hole and then filled it in.
Did the bridge hold up for you?
I did not cross yet. I took those pictures the same day I took the bridge photo and was planning on going back the next day but the son showed up on spring break and all other activities fell to the wayside. lol. But this Saturday for sure! Thank you for all this intel. Tremendously valuable.
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the third pic is the beach is on the left where i learned to swim.beach is gone and water much shallower now
Bridge was solid as a rock wasn't it? Was last time I crossed it and that wasn't long ago
Yes, it felt sturdy for sure. There was one plank that’s starting to look suspect. But it held quite nicely.
Black Rat snake possibly getting ready to shed.has to be the most common snake around,the woods are full of em.Great climbers and eaters.My Great Grand dad would trow em in the corn crib to keep the rats out of the corn.Make good pets too,very seldom bite unlike a racer,quite strong.van tell from racer by keeled scales,head scalation the way they kink as they move which marks them as a climber.Likely to stay still or try crawling away slowly,not fast like a racer and often found in trees..Shiny black after shed where as a racer is flat black with grey belly,rat snake has mottled creme colored belly
You’re really making me want to take a venture out there. I’ve been wanting to get a duplicate photo of the one I posted a while back and curious to see if the trees in the photo are still there
What of this in the last photo. If that is a vine, it's super straight. If it's a vine, the tension it has to be under is enormous.
Looks like a vine some of the other pictures show it in more detail. It’s on the straight and narrow!
Bob that area is full of Wisteria,This appears to be a wisteria vine to me.I can think of no steel cables left in that area.I may be wrong but I do believe it's a vine.Would be in character with that area