Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - Walmart, Jackson OH
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Mallards, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 24, 2011
Hint hint
I stopped in Marietta OH to get Bob Wark's take on what I'm dragging along in the trailer. Bob knows a wee bit about it and the story behind it and If it ever stops raining I'll open the trailer and show you what I'm up to.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jackson OH
Walmart Supercenter Store #1519, 100 Walmart Dr, Jackson, OH 45640 - (740) 288-2700
- Good level parking - request you park to the far right along the grass
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Crayfish Chimney
Late one afternoon I sat upon my camera case beside the path where it wound through the darkest part of the woods, down near the pond, and watched a crayfish building his "chimney," the land entrance to his underwater tunnel. He had just started to work above the ground when I first arrived. He came up through the moist black earth, carrying a ball of it between his two enormous fighting claws. Using the claws as hands, he spread the soil around the hole to form the base of the chimney. He then backed down the hole and after several minutes came up with another armful.