Two for one

Destination: Wabash Heritage Trail, South leg / Happy Hollow Park
Miles hiked: 8/6
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikkor 50mm 1:18 non DSLR lens.

No strong theme for this Saturday or Sunday's photo's and not a lot of photo's taken. So I will be combining the two days into one post.

This first photo is of a fish skull I found. I brought it home. I will clean up and use it in for some still life photo's later. Then I will add it to my Halloween collection. It is most likely an Asian Carp of some kind.

Stepping Stones

These flowers are everywhere this year.

Old Standard Oil Gas station next to where I work. It's a mini museum now. I plan on getting better shots of this later.

Night shot of one of the towers for pedestrian bridge.

Night shot of the Standard Oil Gas Station.

Some fungus growing on a rotting tree. I was disappointed with this. The color did not come out well. The colors were much brighter.

Some steps at Happy Hallow Park

Tree roots at Happy Hallow Park

One of these is not like the others. This is from my back yard

A bee came by while I was photographing the odd rose.

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.

If you want to see more photo's from this trip click here.