Yesterday, I took a trip to Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, a state park located near Southern Pines, NC. A new photo album has been posted, with some sights from the park.
I took a trip to Goose Creek State Park yesterday, on the eastern coast of North Carolina. The park is simply fantastic. A 3/4-mile boardwalk leads out over a hardwood swamp, with lots of beautiful sights. Each hiking trail has a unique look and feel, and several lead to scenic overlooks. If you’re ever out near the coast, I highly recommend a visit.
As always, I took along my camera. The resulting photo album is the largest one I’ve posted in a long time. Enjoy!
I may or may not have mentioned before that I have a goal of visiting and photographing every state park in North Carolina. As a precursor to setting out on that goal, I have created a map of state park locations. Each location uses GPS coordinates provided by the state park service. Now that I have a GPS device that uses Google Maps (a Motorola Droid; review coming soon!), I figured this would be a terrific way to make it easy for me to get driving directions to certain locations.
While looking through all of the official state park pages, I learned a number of interesting facts:
The location markers on the map I’ve created are currently being used by me to keep track of where I’ve been. However, the map is publicly available, so feel free to use it to navigate to any of the state’s parks. If you have any suggestions on how the map could be improved, feel free to leave a comment. I’d like for this to be a helpful resource for people.
I went for a walk yesterday at Eno River State Park, and took a few photos. The Early Autumn Hike album is the result. I am going to try to take more photos over the next few weeks, now that the weather is starting to become much more comfortable. Hopefully I’ll be able to hit up some new trails in the area (there are plenty around that I’ve never walked).
I took a little trip to Raven Rock State Park today, and took some photographs while I was there. It’s a great park to visit, with some really nice vistas to view the surrounding area. Signs of Spring could be found if you looked hard enough, which I’m thankful for (I’ve gotten very tired of Winter lately).
My parents and I took a trip to Medoc Mountain State Park today, and I took several pictures along the way. This short photo album is the result. I recommend the park for anyone in the RTP area of North Carolina. It’s about a 90 minute drive to the north and east, and offers a lot of hiking possibilities (along with fishing, canoeing, and picnic tables).
Update: I’ve fixed the above link to the album (thanks Dustin). That’s what happens when you post late at night.
It’s taken me many weeks, but I have finally posted a new photo album of a family trip to Hanging Rock State Park, an outing we took at the beginning of the month for my birthday. I hope you enjoy the photos.
Note that there are two panorama shots in this album, both of which turned out fairly decent. I need to work on my panorama skills, and I’d like my album software to be able to dynamically link to high-res variants of a specific photo (a feature it currently does not support). For now, the links to the larger image are presented in the caption.
I have posted the rest of my photographs from the Pump Station trail at Eno River State Park. We saw some other interesting sights along the trail, including a rather large black snake and some signs of beaver activity. I hope you enjoy the album.
I have posted a new photo album detailing the ruins of the Eno River pump station. It was used from 1887 to 1927 to supply drinking water to the city of Durham. Amazingly, after only 80 years, the ruins have been all but forgotten, as the forest has swallowed it up completely. I highly recommend visiting this site in Eno River State Park; it is well worth the trip.
Another photo album will also be appearing in the next day or so, showcasing some of the other things to be seen along the Pump Station trail.
A new photo album has just been posted. This past weekend, my dad and I went out to the Eno River to hike one of their many trails. Signs of spring were all around, and I captured a few of them with my camera. Comments on this photo album are welcome.
Update: I have renamed this photo album to “Dunnagan’s Trail on the Eno.” I think that name fits a little better, especially given the nature of some of the photographs. 