Taking this walk with camera in hand I decided that I could also demonstrate how to use a compass. By the time I got back home I had taken pictures that would fill the pages of numerous posts. My walk turned into a real adventure. Reading a compass will be a future blog.
I started recording this content as I walked out of my driveway.
The corner is less than 50 yards from where I started.
This stretch is perhaps a half of a mile from the mountain stream I am so excited to share with you!
The following four photos I took as I made my way to the stream.
Smaller stream on the way. Streams can be found meandering through the forests in almost any direction you hike.
This is a picture of the stream I am going to highlight in my walk. Very difficult to enter from here. From the road it is probably a 125 foot drop. I had to take a little extra precaution working my way down the embankment to get this shot.
I thought this was a cool tree. For those of you who have followed me you know that I love trees. Couldn't pass this beauty up.
This is the spot I entered for the following pics. I took a picture going downstream and figured that I would take an upstream shot. This is when it got to be even more interesting. As I turned around there was a critter about the size of a cat just coming up the bank to cross the road. As soon as he saw me he scurried back down the bank and disappeared from my view.
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He must have went back into the pipe. I sat a little upstream from here, poised for a really fantastic wildlife shot. After about 20 minuets of having my camera locked and loaded, sitting as still as humanly possible, with legs going numb, I threw in the towel.
The reason for my excitement is that I believe I had just seen a baby Fisher.
Several weeks ago while sitting on the front porch at dusk with my wife, we say what appeared to be rather very large cat. At the time we had no idea what it really was.
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=pictures+of+the+mammal+fisher
I have several infrared wildlife cameras, and decided to see if I could get a picture of this creature.
On numerous occasions the bait I used had vanished and the only pics I got were of me shutting the camera off to check to see If I had captured any images.
No luck at all. I ran into a local farmer I know, and described to him what I had seen. Without hesitation he said Fisher, they are very aggressive, and If you get a chance shoot him. He followed up this advice with two rather gruesome stories of people being attacked by them.
At this point I thought it might be wise to stop trying to attract these critters to the property.
This is the first pic after leaving the dirt road heading downstream
This stream only feeds the larger one when it has rained heavily. I stopped to take several pictures of this area. It provided the perfect visuals for how sedimentary rock is formed. I completed a post on sedimentary rock using some of the pics from this walk,.
https://steemit.com/fridayrocks/@thebigsweed/earth-s-time-capsule-sedimentary-rock
Look at the Burls that have grown on this tree before dying. Great specialty lumber. Highly sought after wood product. Big Bucks!
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More content for another post about the Carbon Cycle. This walk just kept on giving👍👍👍.
Before venturing off I figured out how to use the time lapse on my new camera. This is a picture of my feet as I'm trying to position my camera for my very first ever selfie.
I had planned to continue my walk to the Beaver pond that I had explored several years ago. I had never approached it from this direction. In the past I have walked upstream to get to the pond. With some clouds rolling in and the skies turning blacker by the minute I headed home.
Good call as it started to rain as I plopped into the couch on the front porch.
Hope you enjoyed! thebigsweed.