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| Cowan's Ford Wildlife Refuge. Grassland restoration which is posted against trespass. |
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| That bastard is taking photos! |
Musings on genre writing, waterfall wandering, and peak bagging in the South's wilderness areas.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Uh oh...
I took Carole and Andy to Mountain Island Lake today so that they could go kayaking. I didn't feel like kayaking because it was just way the hell too hot and humid for that. So I drove over to a nearby wildlife refuge to see if I could spot some birds. They are trying to restore a native grassland there and you're not supposed to cross into it. They have a viewing area that you are to use to try to photograph wildlife. While I was on the viewing overlook I noticed two guys hiking around the wetland portion of the restoration project. Probably they were not supposed to be there. I had my telephoto lens on the camera and was taking photos of the area and they wandered into the shots. When I cropped one of the shots I saw that they had noticed me taking photos that obviously included them. They did not look happy.
Guilty consciences. And so they should.
ReplyDeleteThey look like bird watchers. Pretty harmless. Probably out just to add some rare birds to their lists.
ReplyDeleteThey may not have even seen the sign and didn't know they weren't supposed to be there.
ReplyDeleteThey look all hot and sweaty--that's probably why they looked pissed.
They were harmless cats, obviously. Just nature lovers. But unless they entered the refuge by another access point I don't know about, they were breaking the rules. Or maybe they had permission to do so. And maybe they were just looking my way by accident and I just snapped a funny photo.
ReplyDeleteEither way, I would not be the kind of guy to rat them out to the authorities. I just thought it was a funny bit of happenstance.