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Nice article. I was there last year after a Pinelands Adventure trip to see a cranberry harvest. Interesting site. I too am a big fan of the Pine Barrens. It has some great stories and history. Look forward to reading some more of your articles.

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Thanks, Richard!

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All those tiny crabs are so wild -- would never have imagined them on a mud flat in inland NJ. Also, that’s neat about the Pine Barrens Forum -- is there a community of folks exploring these places?

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"It makes me believe we are transitioning to a post-fossil-fuel future on a widely habitable planet littered with archaeological relics of the Before Times, and not entering a slow apocalypse haunted by the mistakes of its past." What a great line. I love these travel adventures.

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Thanks, Chris!

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I have to take the real camera out hiking more often. Sounds like a good time.

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This was my phone. I am toying with the idea of a real camera but I'm not good a fiddling and learning anymore. I just want to point and shoot. There's a ridiculously expensive Sony Cybershot that would do, but for what? Online viewing? I'd be wasting my money and time.

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Yeah, I already have eleventy-thousand cameras. I usually use my phone, but sometimes it's hard to get good shots of wildlife that way.

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Yeah it's tempting to get a zoom lens

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I find I'm so bad at remembering to get the photos off the memory card. Same thing with video. Editing videos feels like torture. TOR-TURE!

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Sigh yeah. That's why I'm wavering on the camera. No Wi-Fi! I want to upload directly from the camera to

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