Daily Archives: September 20, 2015

Rediscovery 09/19/15 > 09/20/15

Joe Pye weeds of Finger Island, with flowers a bit past their peak color.

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The Finger from its tip. So regular and un-natural seeming.

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This is the place off the path running along the northern shore of Finger Lake where I accessed the island. I suppose the associated rock pictured below becomes Access Rock? You simply cross the trunk of a small fallen tree just below the rock to easily reach the island. I would guess Finger Island is a third as big as the whole lake itself. Could be overestimating this.

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Weeds along the trail. We are definitely on the doorstep of autumn.

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These stepping stone style rocks are where I cross Leola Creek below the Finger Lake dam to get to the most southern part of Rediscovery.

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Nearby elongated rock in the center of the creek.

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Looking back toward the dam from the crossing.

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A house probably marking the eastern edge of Rediscovery, where wilderness meets civilization again.

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And then we come to locations from the next day, which would be yesterday as I’m writing this text. This is the first time this summer — and years and years actually — that I’ve explored this region, which can be accessed by an old road splitting off from Water Plant Road to the *south* (as Rediscovery lies north of this same road). Much more woods are found here, with multiple old roads crossing the area. The below photo depicts a more open area in these woods.

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These snapshots comes from the edge of a a torn down plant once making top secret electronics.

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with The Hill in the background

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Rediscovery 09/19/15

Cattails of Bigfeet Swamp. For now, I’m reverting the name of the area surrounding this swamp to Bigfoot (instead of Bigfeet), but the swamp retains the changed name. I do this for google search reasons, and the need to keep hiding my local woodsy finds from, well, the locals.

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*Bigfeet* Swamp intake in *Bigfoot*, then. Confusing? Well, tuff. 🙂

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Then it’s over to Finger Lake in Rediscovery again. Nice green algae at the bottom, but this is suppose to represent the reservoir we get the town’s drinking water from? Hmm.

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The Finger of Finger Lake once more.

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Upstream: the banned waterhole again. In the center of the photo you can see a rather complex rock cairn that has formed on one of its larger rocks since last weekend. Nice.

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Waterhole > Finger Lake, its namesake, weed bedecked island ablaze in the sun. Actually about the only thing you can make out on the island is the small Pinkie peninsula, emerging from the near side of the overexposed region and pointing right at us.

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Finger Island and another mysterious thing about it: what appears to be some kind of purposeful stick creation near its eastern tip. Looks human-made to me.

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More close up. What is the purpose of this?

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Discolored, oily water at the tip of the finger.

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The small rocks composing The Finger continue underwater past this tip.

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