absolutely beautiful Vic! What a place you live in. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Every Summer I want to leave. But the Winters are great!

Those did look like Pitmans photos other than the different wilderness. You need a good dog like Maisy though to keep you company and scare off the crocs.

I was not planning on buying the new knife until I found out it was a 3/16th. It won't be near as much grinding for a wicked edge as the YKLE's took.

It is to bad about all the development. If we did not have so much over population we could all drive around in 500HP muscle cars and monster trucks without having to worry about Global warming etc. I hope CoyoteBC and I get to see the glades before it is all some retirment community for babyboomers.

Great pics Vic ,I hope you get t5o spend lots more time out in the bush. I need to get out more myself. If I spent half as much time actually using the stuff I buy for outdoors as I do talking about it and shopping for it on the net I would be way better off.

Still haven't made my Altamaha River trip yet, but its on the list!

That looks like tons of fun! Hey Vic is your YK 1/4 at the spine or 3/16 like the new one?

Vic,
Never mind that wilderness.... I am hooked on that sheath!

Vic has the Limited edition......it has the 1/4" thick blade.....well, at least mine does.

What's up with this picture Vic......you didn't even try to clear this fallen tree???
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That YKLE should have been up to the task. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Vic,

Too bad your three hour tour didn't include Ginger and Mary Ann...

That is not a fallen tree. It is a living palmetto root. It is huge, which is why I took the picture. I swear, if every thing else down here were to die off, palmettos would remain. They are giant weeds! You just can't kill them.

This is as good a place as any for me to post my conservation rant. I love swamps, forests, marshes, grasslands, mountains, creeks, rivers, beaches, jungles, and even some deserts. Most of my old favorite stomping grounds have been filled in and converted to subdivisions or exclusive playgrounds for the rich. We all have to live some place. Our cities are no longer safe for non-criminals, so many of us have been forced out into the surrounding forests which are cut down and turned into bland, uniform, tasteless subdivisions. Residents of the suburbs are really just refugees, victims of a sort of ethnic cleansing. My property was once the favorite hunting area for a fellow gun club member. He complained to me once about the houses going in. I assured him that I would leave my property as natural as possible, and that he was welcome to come by and visit any time. He could have purchased the whole tract cheaply when he bought his home.

But some places are really special. Jekyll Island has had hotels and a convention center as long as I can remember. It is a State Park, owned by the people of Georgia. There are houses there and several golf courses. Near where I took the pictures was a beach picnic area. It was closed off to the public in the 1970s, and a $3.00 toll was placed on access to the island. No more local family outings to the beach. They didn't want local yokels there. They put in more hotels and a useless "water park". Tourism was the game. Fortunately, much of the island had been left in its natural state. There are still places on the beach where you won't see another soul. In recent years, tourism has fallen off. Not enough "attractions" or night life. Canadians still vacation here for some reason, though. I just hope the new devlopment is "green" and not destructive to the natural areas. I want others to enjoy this beautiful place. I just don't want another Hilton Head, South Carolina. I used to camp there as a boy scout. Now I can't even afford to go there.

Great pics Vic. You have a special place carved out for yourself down there.

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The desert here has really changed for the worse in many parts over the last 10 years I have lived here. Many of the placed I used to hike behind my house are solid houses. I can't even take my kids out to shoot their bb gun without driving several miles, I used to walk out to the end of my street.

Quite a few folks scowl at me when I drive my Jeep on trails, but I have done more to clean up trails, fix them and pick up spent casings from bonehead shooters that I believe I help more than I hurt.

My wife's parents have about 5 acres of land that has been deemed habitat for a rat in California so they can't build on the land and now they can't sell it either. This was going to be their retirement property for the final home. Meanwhile, 10 miles away developers are putting up an endless sea of stamped out dwellings which will be riddled with graffiti even before they are done being built. Nice.

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