South leg of Wabash Heritage Trail

I forgot to turn on my GPS tracker this time. So, I am not sure how long a hike it was. But I am guessing it was about 7 - 8 miles. I was hiking almost 3 hours around trip.

My destination was a large exposed portion of the river that I found a few months ago. It  has been under again since then. It is a large area of gravel, sand and shell covered beach.

On the way there I came across a few thing of interest.

My favorite black iron bridge

Exposed roots

Soon to bloom flower

Spider web. It took a while to get this shot. It was windy and I had trouble finding an angle that would show the web well.

A weed going to seed

And finally we reach the destination. Unfortunately I did not take a overall picture of the area. Next time I go there I will take one and add to this posting. Here are some shots of the things I found on the beach.

A mussel shell

Assorted shells, rocks and sand

A lone spiral shell

A feather in the sand. It was a little over a foot long. I found it this way.

Part of the beach was still under water. I liked the look of these fallen trees.

Fallen trees in some still water.

Somebody left a large pile of dead fish. There were a couple of Gar, a catfish, and some carp. There were about 10 fish. Most about 2 feet long. I brought the head of the Gar home. I will photograph it later. I wanted it for my Halloween display.

Fish tail and some scales.

Close-up of some spiral shells.

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North end of the Heritage Trail

I decided to hike the north end of the Wash Heritage Trail today. It begins at the Tippecanoe Battlefield Park. It was an 8 mile, 3 hour hike round trip. I had the trail to myself most of the time.It was peacefully quite.

I brought and used my tripod this time. I think I may want to get a taller tripod soon. I missed some shots because the tripod was need due to the heavy shade but it was not tall enough to shoot over some obstructions.

No really great photo's this time. But a few nice ones. Here are some highlights.

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Middle of the Wabash Heritage Trail

Decided to hike the middle portion of the Wabash Heritage Trail today. The middle portion start at Lafayette and go'es to Battle Ground Indiana. I only hiked part the trail today. About 7 miles from my house, down the buried cars and back.

This is the tail that I hike the most. It is not the most interesting but it is paved most of the way which is nice if it has been raining recently. I rained last night. When it rains a lot, large portions of this trail are under water. See earlier post about the flood.

I encountered a cluster of cooperative Cabbage Moths. But most of the photo's did not come out very well. This one is OK.

There are two cars buried along side of the trail. I did not photograph the other this time,

Door handles at a bank downtown

This appeared on the telephone pole next to our house a few weeks back.

Flight of the Bumblebee and other photo's

During a recent hike I was trying out an old Nikon lens Series E 75mm - 150mm zoom lens. It works with my digital camera (Nikon D40) but was made for SRL camera. So it has no electronics. I must use the aperture ring on the lens and manually focus it as well. I think I prefer using the manual aperture ring instead of an electronic setting on the camera. But the manual focus is difficult for me with my bad eye sight. Maybe when I get new glasses it will be easier. Also the weight of the lens was a problem sometime.

 I will take a tripod with em the next time I take this lens on a hike. This first photo was my best shot of the day. At the time I did not know what I had caught. I was trying to take a picture of the bee while it was sitting on the flower. But it had moved from one flower to another as I press the shutter release. I did not know I caught it in mid-flight.

I have no idea what kind of flower/weed was in these next two photos. They were around 5-6 feet tall.

Some mushrooms along the side of the path.

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