Caplinger Mills
Ma and I took a swing past the Tick Farm on our way back from vacation. Here are a couple of photos of the Sac river at Caplinger Mills.
This is a shot at the Mills. It is high water. The river is washing over the dam that powered the mill. Unfortunately this is where a young man died this summer. He was swinging out into the river upstream on a rope tied to a tree. The current washed him down and over the dam. The current rolled him, and pulled him under. This is why we never swam in this river. The young man was 23. He was a veteran of two tours in Iraq.
This unused bridge is just downstream of the dam. You can see a guy fishing on it. It is reported someone jumped off this thing to try to get to the young man who was in trouble. The current made it impossible.
Here is a view looking downstream from the bridge. The water is way up into the trees. We had a very rainy year so far. The canoe rental is just to the left out of view.
The upper part of the tick farm. It’s getting quite grown over. New trees and bushes. This shot is looking out over the section where the boys and I got the van stuck. Amazing soil there. Stuff sinks. Well the Ram Charger did okay there but the van was never meant to leave the pavement.
This would be the road that borders the Tick Farm. Yes the directions to the place include the phrase … “turn off the hard surface road. There is a creek at the bottom of the road where you see it go down hill. In the rainy season it can be underwater.
And this is the way it looks down towards the creek. This is where we go plinking. After a number of years we eventually suceeded in shooting one tree down. Now if you look real carefully, you can see poison ivy (Chris ususally finds it all) and about a million chiggers and ticks waiting for our next trip down.
July 8th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
how long did it take to shoot the tree down?
July 8th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
… Best I remember it took 5 years or more. It was a pretty good sized tree.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Poison ivy and chiggers … hmmm, no ticks?
July 9th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Ticks galore. My personal best was 16.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Hey Grandpa,
Do you own the tick farm??
July 10th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Yea Doodlebug I own it. Not the water part and the mills just the weeds part and the ticks.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
“weeds part and the ticks. ”
Well Pa, you could loosley translate that to mean “farm and livestock.” Just a differrent kind of livestock!
July 11th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Haaaaaaaaaaaa.
Funny Sam let me hang onto the image of herding ticks.