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11
May 2010

More wandering around "The Bend"

So I spent another hour or so wandering around the Chattahoochee Bend Stat Park.  I picked up the end of my last walk and took it a little farther.  The water shed that had the nice granite slide last time was dry, but it did give me a chance to find the start of the stream.  It looks like it would be quite pretty if you came through after a heavy rain.  There is a very cool tree that appears to be rooted on both sides of stream with the water flowing under tree trunk.

One crop of bolder included a mini "Fat Man's Squeeze" (yes I did fit).  Many of the stones at the top of the bowl had a very heavy moss cover that was quite lush.  There were a bolder and a tree locked in a battle for the same piece of ground.  Looks like the battle has been under way for 50+ years, and they may have just called a truce.

Of all the things I stumbled across, my favorite was the small pine tree growing out of the granite rock.  There wasn't any dirt or  other plants just a sole tree growing out of a large chunk of granite.  Just shows that determination make anything possible.

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