This was a such a great trip, I loved all the improv. Also, you didn’t write too much about it but I feel like this was such a post-trackers-camp visit with you -- you were so aware of every animal path & marking. I just thought that was really cool, like you scored a new ability in the video game of your life.
Sorry about your luncheon disappointments, but it sounds like an interesting excursion.
I love Richard Russo! I'm pretty sure I've read all his published work. "Nobody's Fool" was my introduction as well, but my fave is probably "The Risk Pool".
The only one I wouldn't recommend is "Straight Man"...although the "Lucky Hank" miniseries --based on the novel in question-- was amusing enough at times.
The Barnegat wasn’t used as a shipping vessel. It was a famous Light Ship, a critical navigation marker placed near Barnegat Bay NJ to warn of shoals or other critical hazards beneath the water.
It was clearly identified on Coast Guard Navigational charts as it was permanently anchored and lighted.
Lightships were used where it would have been difficult to impossible to build a lighthouse. There were others. They certainly were in use in the 1950’s and likely much later.
I don’t know what kind of navigational aid is on that site now but the hazard to shipping must still be identified somehow.
This was a such a great trip, I loved all the improv. Also, you didn’t write too much about it but I feel like this was such a post-trackers-camp visit with you -- you were so aware of every animal path & marking. I just thought that was really cool, like you scored a new ability in the video game of your life.
Yes, it was a good place for it, because they're are so few humans there that the animals have the run of the place.
I wonder if that nest is an osprey nest. Could be eagles of course, but I saw how ospreys like to take advantage of man-made structures.
It probably is! I saw plenty of them in the area.
Sorry about your luncheon disappointments, but it sounds like an interesting excursion.
I love Richard Russo! I'm pretty sure I've read all his published work. "Nobody's Fool" was my introduction as well, but my fave is probably "The Risk Pool".
Thanks, I will be reading more of him!
The only one I wouldn't recommend is "Straight Man"...although the "Lucky Hank" miniseries --based on the novel in question-- was amusing enough at times.
The Barnegat wasn’t used as a shipping vessel. It was a famous Light Ship, a critical navigation marker placed near Barnegat Bay NJ to warn of shoals or other critical hazards beneath the water.
It was clearly identified on Coast Guard Navigational charts as it was permanently anchored and lighted.
Lightships were used where it would have been difficult to impossible to build a lighthouse. There were others. They certainly were in use in the 1950’s and likely much later.
I don’t know what kind of navigational aid is on that site now but the hazard to shipping must still be identified somehow.
Be a good research topic.
Very cool, I did not know that.