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(127 votes) Published: Oct 03, 2006 4:18 p.m. Viewed 609 times
Yesterday I was really bored and decided to go on a random exploration crusade to kill the day off of school. So I call up my friend, Richard and we bike to some random place about 2 miles away from my house. And thus began the exploration of the Lenape Grounds.
The Lenape Indians were the inhabitants of the Delaware River region for hundreds of years, and they held out until past the colonial era. Luckily for me, I live near the general area of which they inhabited and much of the terrain remains the same as it was in their times. So this egg may not seem interesting to you, but I found the fact that I was seeing exactly what they were hundreds of years ago exciting.
We took a main road and veered off into the woods beyond the ravine. We would stay in that one spot for a few minutes and then head back along the road to another point in the road. I didn’t get many pictures because my phone ran out of battery (yes I took the pictures with my phone, but they’re all 640x480 pictures), but the pictures that I did get were interesting in my opinion.
So the first stop we took was near a meadow/swamp area. The swamp opened up into a river that ran alongside the road, but was not visible from the roadside and is set back a good half mile, and believe me; a half mile of bumpy tree roots and thornbushes on a bmx bike takes alot out of you.
The first picture is a shot of the river that the swamp emptied out into. It smelled horrible and we could barely stand to take any more pictures, but I managed to get a few more shots.
If you look carefully in the middle of the picture above, you’ll see that a 150+ year old (I assume) Native-American trail still remains.
Obviously, this part hasn’t remained untouched by modern civilization. The object in the tree in the picture above is a red Virgin Airlines backpack that you get with the purchase of tickets for kids and is filled with goodies and comics (cause English people are cool like that).
The next place we stopped was a little further away from the river and it was just really wet mud and trees.
The first thing that came to our attention was the remains of a wooden pallet that got there somehow. Along with it there were scraps of random wood lying everywhere.
That sign makes me want to dig there so much. Cutting off telephone lines of the entire nation would be so cool.
After seeing that, we determined there was nothing else in the area but swamps and scrap wood, so we continued onward.
We stopped at many other places in between, but they didn’t vary much from the aforementioned places, so I held off on taking pictures until we came upon a more interesting place.
This area looked more weathered by human contact, as there were empty soda bottles everywhere, and the remains of what appeared to be an attempted treehouse.
My friend snagged this picture of me on the would-be floor of the treehouse as I was looking around for more things. The floor I was standing on was 7 feet above the ground, but it looks lower because Richard was standing on a nearby hill when he took the picture.
Nearby was an uprooted tree, which I climbed to the end. I didn’t bother to check if there was anything living under it in fear of a rabid mongoose jumping out at my face, so there aren’t any pictures of that.
Right next to the tree was a small swamp/ mudfilled pit with more random wood and a table top thrown in it, so it occured to me that we were progressively moving towards humanity as we advanced along. Eventually, there was nothing left to explore, and we had to go back.
My parting words of wisdom; if there is anywhere near you that was inhabited by ancient people, explore it. It is an extremely good feeling to know that you are walking on history, and it also gives you a better idea of what life was like back then.
By the way, I know my exploration eggs suck, but I don’t really care.
Oct 03, 2006 4:33 pm - i didnt delete any comments. i deleted the other egg and reposted it with working pics. i could care less about the 50 unnecessary egg points
Oct 04, 2006 6:22 am - Historic sites like that are cool and glad ya felt good walking around. Next time you see trash tossed all over it, pack some out with you, you’ll feel even better. So will the next visitors. Good egg.
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