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On Saturday morning at 8:00 i picked my friend up to go to the Pine Barrens, it was raining and i thought that the day was going to be a washout.
Our first destination was on Burrs Mills and North Firelane Road to take a pic of an old tractor that reminded me of the one at the Boot Hill Gun Club.
We then left the area and rode to Rt.72 East, i wanted to take a pic of a survey marker, i took two in fact plus the one from our last outing, well that makes three blurry pics of the marker, i will try three pics next time, the marker is located not that far from the State Colony.
It was then on to Rt.563 South to view another marker, this one we found rather quickly.
It was then on to Speedwell to view some sites there, i had permission from the owner Mr. Stephen Lee 3rd to do so. This is a pic of an historic sign at Speedwell.
We had intentions of viewing different locales but were stopped dead in our tracks by the dreaded Pine Fly, it was the worst that i have ever seen them this Summer, we were almost inhaling them, the Deep Woods off was not a deterent.
We then left for Jenkins to view another marker that eluded us last time, and it has eluded us again, we only stayed 5 minutes because i could not tolerate the multitude of cars passing by and staring at us, i would rather be in a more secluded setting.
Having time to waste we then decided to visit my old marina on Great Bay Boulevard, taking Stage Road, which is now repaired, we arrived on Great Bay Boulevard, passing the Indian Shell Mound, then after the first bridge i saw that the first marina has closed up shop.
We then approached Cape Horn Marina and i noticed that the first building at Cape Horn was half burnt. Arriving at Cap't Mikes and espying an old sight the Fish Factory i met my old dock owner. He said that the previous Sunday that there was a real bad storm. The Greenhead traps were demolished, lightning had hit the Tower at the Fish Factory about a dozen times, hail was the size of golf balls, and there was 2 feet of water in the store. On a positive note they are catching a lot of Fluke but the ratio is 20 throwbacks to one keeper.
After a few cold ones we left to go to Turtle Creek Road, on the road i took this pic of another old tractor.
Time now to return to the Dutchtown Bogs to find the underground Stone, as we were taping out the distance a pickup truck pulled up next to my Jeep, two people got out, the one man introduced himself as Fred Miller, i told him our intentions, and then he immediately uncovered the Stone for us. A first pic of the Stone.
A second pic from a different perspective.
I then told him after viewing the Stone that i always recover up things like this and he really appreciated me saying that.
We then left the area, passing Parkdale and on the way to find the Sleeper Marker we found this, whoever did this should be ashamed of themselves, this really gets my goat.
Arriving in the area of the Sleeper marker, and after a ten minute search, we found the marker, a tree was not far from hiding the location of the marker.
It was then time to go to our friend's house in Tabernacle to finish off the day with some refreshments. On the way we spotted this little critter who struck the perfect pose, it looks like he is molting. What type of lizard is this if anyone can tell me ?
And finally we saw this, anyone know what this is, is it a feeder of some type ?
Arriving at our friend's house we pondered on the day, started out rainy, turned sunny and hot in the Pines, nice breeze down the shore, met two real down to earth bog owners in the Pines, all in all it was a great day.
Jim
On Saturday morning at 8:00 i picked my friend up to go to the Pine Barrens, it was raining and i thought that the day was going to be a washout.
Our first destination was on Burrs Mills and North Firelane Road to take a pic of an old tractor that reminded me of the one at the Boot Hill Gun Club.
We then left the area and rode to Rt.72 East, i wanted to take a pic of a survey marker, i took two in fact plus the one from our last outing, well that makes three blurry pics of the marker, i will try three pics next time, the marker is located not that far from the State Colony.
It was then on to Rt.563 South to view another marker, this one we found rather quickly.
It was then on to Speedwell to view some sites there, i had permission from the owner Mr. Stephen Lee 3rd to do so. This is a pic of an historic sign at Speedwell.
We had intentions of viewing different locales but were stopped dead in our tracks by the dreaded Pine Fly, it was the worst that i have ever seen them this Summer, we were almost inhaling them, the Deep Woods off was not a deterent.
We then left for Jenkins to view another marker that eluded us last time, and it has eluded us again, we only stayed 5 minutes because i could not tolerate the multitude of cars passing by and staring at us, i would rather be in a more secluded setting.
Having time to waste we then decided to visit my old marina on Great Bay Boulevard, taking Stage Road, which is now repaired, we arrived on Great Bay Boulevard, passing the Indian Shell Mound, then after the first bridge i saw that the first marina has closed up shop.
We then approached Cape Horn Marina and i noticed that the first building at Cape Horn was half burnt. Arriving at Cap't Mikes and espying an old sight the Fish Factory i met my old dock owner. He said that the previous Sunday that there was a real bad storm. The Greenhead traps were demolished, lightning had hit the Tower at the Fish Factory about a dozen times, hail was the size of golf balls, and there was 2 feet of water in the store. On a positive note they are catching a lot of Fluke but the ratio is 20 throwbacks to one keeper.
After a few cold ones we left to go to Turtle Creek Road, on the road i took this pic of another old tractor.
Time now to return to the Dutchtown Bogs to find the underground Stone, as we were taping out the distance a pickup truck pulled up next to my Jeep, two people got out, the one man introduced himself as Fred Miller, i told him our intentions, and then he immediately uncovered the Stone for us. A first pic of the Stone.
A second pic from a different perspective.
I then told him after viewing the Stone that i always recover up things like this and he really appreciated me saying that.
We then left the area, passing Parkdale and on the way to find the Sleeper Marker we found this, whoever did this should be ashamed of themselves, this really gets my goat.
Arriving in the area of the Sleeper marker, and after a ten minute search, we found the marker, a tree was not far from hiding the location of the marker.
It was then time to go to our friend's house in Tabernacle to finish off the day with some refreshments. On the way we spotted this little critter who struck the perfect pose, it looks like he is molting. What type of lizard is this if anyone can tell me ?
And finally we saw this, anyone know what this is, is it a feeder of some type ?
Arriving at our friend's house we pondered on the day, started out rainy, turned sunny and hot in the Pines, nice breeze down the shore, met two real down to earth bog owners in the Pines, all in all it was a great day.
Jim
