Places You Go

Mr. Charlie · 11-06-2015, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Ashwell John

Nice sharing here. I also love travel like my parents. And they always inspire me to go somewhere for excursion when I am free. LOL!

DwnWthVwls · 11-22-2015, 05:56 PM

NJ Cedar Swamp.

This is one of the places I go when I'm doing work for my professor. It's very difficult to navigate. Super slippery, trees down everywhere, and moss is covering everything. Plus, it's usually filled with water, you take one step on a soft spot and you're knee deep in muck. Not looking forward to navigating this in snow cover. I love it here, it's dark and relaxing, almost feels like you're in Jurassic Park

Short video of me approaching the swamp, and a few pics:

Oriphiel · 11-22-2015, 06:08 PM

How is that any different from the rest of New Jersey?

DwnWthVwls · 11-22-2015, 06:11 PM

Still have the same shitty forum name I see... Also, the other area I go to that borders the swamp looks like this:

It's insane how fast the terrain changes.

Lisnaholic · 11-22-2015, 06:45 PM

Some landscapes are a little sinister, and that´s how your cedar swamp looks to me, DwnwthVwls, with its old fallen trees and puddles of black water. I hope the look of those trees isn´t down to acid rain...

For inhospitable, virtually impassable terrain, a mangrove swamp takes some beating; when the waterway runs out, what can you do except hack, wade and balance on roots ?

DwnWthVwls · 11-22-2015, 06:53 PM

It's just a natural part of the environment, not from environmental damage. I'd love to visit a mangrove some day, I hear they are quite brutal. We have something similar occurring in the cedar swamp. The Bald Cypress tree develops "knees", which are roots that come up from the ground.

The trees around here don't grow knees nearly this big, but they are wild.

Lisnaholic · 11-22-2015, 08:40 PM

Wow! Those "knees" look quite alien. I´ve never seen anything like that before.
If you´re curious, mangroves are worth a short visit, but they are so dense you can´t see very far and they are also full of mosquitos - so not exactly my favourite place to go.

More interesting to me is a dried-up lagoon about 30 miles from where I live; either from the sun or the salt content, a lot of the mud has a thick, slightly disgusting white skin, which I can never resist probing with a stick or a stone. Poor Mexicans build right out to the edge of the mud and just chuck their garbage into the lagoon :-

PS: You mentioned "your professor", DWV - are you studying the environment or something?

The Batlord · 11-22-2015, 08:44 PM

I assume they're called "knees" because "dicks" wouldn't sound very good in a scientific journal.

DwnWthVwls · 11-22-2015, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

PS: You mentioned "your professor", DWV - are you studying the environment or something?

I am an envl science major focusing in forestry, hydrology minor.

That lagoon sounds disgusting. Where do you live?

Lisnaholic · 11-22-2015, 10:16 PM

I´m in the Yucatán, SE Mexico; it´s a huge flat limestone plateau about 10 m above sea level, mainly covered with a kind of scrubby forest. This view from the top of a Mayan pyramid conveys the monotony of the landscape pretty well:-

Being limestone, there is effectively no surface water and the peninsular has its own special hydrology, the most notable features being the sinkholes. Here´s a particularly picturesque one:-

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Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	Some landscapes are a little sinister, and that´s how your cedar swamp looks to me, DwnwthVwls, with its old fallen trees and puddles of black water. I hope the look of those trees isn´t down to acid rain... For inhospitable, virtually impassable terrain, a mangrove swamp takes some beating; when the waterway runs out, what can you do except hack, wade and balance on roots ? __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

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Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	Wow! Those "knees" look quite alien. I´ve never seen anything like that before. If you´re curious, mangroves are worth a short visit, but they are so dense you can´t see very far and they are also full of mosquitos - so not exactly my favourite place to go. More interesting to me is a dried-up lagoon about 30 miles from where I live; either from the sun or the salt content, a lot of the mud has a thick, slightly disgusting white skin, which I can never resist probing with a stick or a stone. Poor Mexicans build right out to the edge of the mud and just chuck their garbage into the lagoon :- PS: You mentioned "your professor", DWV - are you studying the environment or something? __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

11-22-2015, 10:16 PM	#60 (permalink)
Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	I´m in the Yucatán, SE Mexico; it´s a huge flat limestone plateau about 10 m above sea level, mainly covered with a kind of scrubby forest. This view from the top of a Mayan pyramid conveys the monotony of the landscape pretty well:- Being limestone, there is effectively no surface water and the peninsular has its own special hydrology, the most notable features being the sinkholes. Here´s a particularly picturesque one:- __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953