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Published: August 26th 2013
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Dean & I spent our 11th anniversary camping in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. We've never been here. We had a great site for camping. We arrived Thursday night and left Sunday morning. Our first full day, we stayed in Pennsylvania. We went to Dingsman Falls. On our way to this waterfall, we meandered along the walkway where we saw Silverthread Falls first. What a pretty waterfall. Then we continued our meandering along the walkway until we finally reached Dingsman Falls. It was much bigger than Silverthread. We walked to the end of the walkway, where you're at it's base. Then we saw a staircase, so of course, we walk up it. Half way up is probably the best viewing of this waterfall. After we were done here, we went to Grey Towers in Milford, PA. Gifford Pinchot is considered the Father of Conservation. He was also a forester. We were allowed to take flash pictures INSIDE! I've never heard of this before. My favorite spot was the Fingerbowl. Took lots of pictures of this and now I want one, but not as big. The Fingerbowl is a "picnic" table. It's just around a big bowl filled with water. There's
chairs around it, with a carved out section of the table edge, so you can get close to the table. Mrs. Pinchot envisioned this idea and had it created. The way the food was passed was in a bamboo bowl. You just put it in the water and push it to the person who asked for it. After this, time to go back to the camp ground.
On Saturday, we went to the New Jersey side of the Deleware River. To get there, we had to go over Dingmans Bridge. (I'd like to know who the Dingman is.) It costs $1. After crossing the bridge, we went to Wallpack, NJ. This abandoned town is pretty quiet. The people, who lived here, moved out by the 1970's. Yes, that's right. The 1970's. The federal government bought up this land, through emminent domain. It's like an old western town without the tavern. The government was going to damn up the area, like the Hoover Dam. After visiting this place for about 10 minutes, we continued our journey to Millbrook, we came across yet another waterfall. It was right there by the side of the dirt road. It's called Buttermilk Falls. So
Dingmans Falls
view from half way up the stairs Millbrook is another village with no people living there. However, this village has interpretters. We went to the church, the blacksmith, the country store, a smokehouse, a dehydration house, an outhouse, and people's houses. It was very neat. If you listen, we hear NOTHING but the wildlife. There's no hum of electricty here. There's electrical lines, but no one lives there, so no electricity. After this, we headed back to the campsite, where we changed our clothes and headed out for our anniversary dinner. We ate at Failte, an Irish restaurant. It's very nice, good food, reasonable prices, and a great waiter.
Sunday, we packed up and left. Had a good time.
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gloria
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Great Pics
Kathy, You do a nice job on these blogs. You will have to show me how you do it, so I can do the same for my trip to Seattle. Nice job.