All,
We spent the first part of the morning pushing our way through some very dense brush near Old Half Way looking again for stones that have been very elusive. We came out of the woods tired and dirty. We did stop at the Lacy/Manchester border cement monument on the Ocean/Burlington County border.
http://www.njpinebarrens.com/teegate/main.php/download/940-1/IMG_6005.jpg
We then decided to head over near Brooksbrae to do some searching, and along the way we surprised three people outside their vehicle who were very suspicious. Jessica was yelling to me to turn around and leave, because she felt they were going to pull a gun on us. But it appeared they were either burning documents, or something else. It was a teenage boy, girl, and a 30ish man. He waved his hand around yelling to me there were bees bothering them, but he was trying to I believe hide the smoke.
They had the road blocked so we had to wait as they sheepishly returned to their vehicle and moved on. They traveled ahead and stopped, and the teenage boy jumped out and ran around the car looking at the edge of the road. The man got out, jumped back in, and off they went again. Jessica was glad to get away from them.
If anyone goes by this location soon, check and see if anything is on the ground there.
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4411263.00011512&e=550189.000000005&datum=nad83
We then walked the rails a few miles north of Brooksbrae, and it looked like we found a well. But I think it is the foundation for those round cement pipes that hold switching and battery equipment for the trains.
http://www.njpinebarrens.com/teegate/main.php/download/945-1/IMG_6006.jpg
And we did find what we were after, a state property corner for Lebanon Forest on the property line of the Hanover Furnace Tract. Someone has removed the state numbers on it.
http://www.njpinebarrens.com/teegate/main.php/download/948-1/IMG_6011.jpg
As for all the rain we had this past week, we walked the headwaters of the Indian Jake, and it was bone dry. No water at all.
Guy
We spent the first part of the morning pushing our way through some very dense brush near Old Half Way looking again for stones that have been very elusive. We came out of the woods tired and dirty. We did stop at the Lacy/Manchester border cement monument on the Ocean/Burlington County border.
http://www.njpinebarrens.com/teegate/main.php/download/940-1/IMG_6005.jpg
We then decided to head over near Brooksbrae to do some searching, and along the way we surprised three people outside their vehicle who were very suspicious. Jessica was yelling to me to turn around and leave, because she felt they were going to pull a gun on us. But it appeared they were either burning documents, or something else. It was a teenage boy, girl, and a 30ish man. He waved his hand around yelling to me there were bees bothering them, but he was trying to I believe hide the smoke.
They had the road blocked so we had to wait as they sheepishly returned to their vehicle and moved on. They traveled ahead and stopped, and the teenage boy jumped out and ran around the car looking at the edge of the road. The man got out, jumped back in, and off they went again. Jessica was glad to get away from them.
If anyone goes by this location soon, check and see if anything is on the ground there.
http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4411263.00011512&e=550189.000000005&datum=nad83
We then walked the rails a few miles north of Brooksbrae, and it looked like we found a well. But I think it is the foundation for those round cement pipes that hold switching and battery equipment for the trains.
http://www.njpinebarrens.com/teegate/main.php/download/945-1/IMG_6006.jpg
And we did find what we were after, a state property corner for Lebanon Forest on the property line of the Hanover Furnace Tract. Someone has removed the state numbers on it.
http://www.njpinebarrens.com/teegate/main.php/download/948-1/IMG_6011.jpg
As for all the rain we had this past week, we walked the headwaters of the Indian Jake, and it was bone dry. No water at all.
Guy
