Vacation!

[Elliot]

Well guys right now I'm on vacation in West Virginia right now, we've been doing some riding and camping and fishing. When I get back to Tejas Saturday I'll be sure to post some pictures for you guys.

[adamanteus]

I'll look forward to that, Elliot. Have a great vacation.

[Stefan-A]

Have fun, Elliot. :)

Haven't had a real vacation in 10 years..

[Snaky]

Enjoy your vacation, counting the days till the 7th of July when I go on vacation.

[chris87]

have a good vacation cant wait to see some pics

[drache]

have great vacation, Elliot
looking forward to the pics

[Thamnophis]

Have a good time!

[Elliot]

Well guys, I just got back today, so I'm pretty tired but I'll try to make it entertaining for you lol. Anyway, we drove up to WV to stay at my aunt and uncle's house, and to go fishing and motorcycling and camping. The first ride that we took up there was to Stonecoal Lake. It's a pretty resivor, that waters is kinda greenish blue. Here's a picture of the bikes sitting in front of the lake:

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The green bike is mine and the red bike is my dad's.

Now, since this is an internation forum, some of you may not have heard of this, but we rode the bikes down to where the Sago mine accident happened. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, a coal mine in Sago had an explosion and 12 miners were trapped and killed. They drilled holes into the mine, but missed the miner's locations by about 200 feet. Here is their memorial:

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSC02918.JPG

On a lighter note, we went camping at the Williams River in Webster County. Our camp site was near Tea Creek.

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Now, my dream fish for freshwater has always beena native brook trout. They're a beautiful fish, and they live in really hard to get places in ice cold water. Well, when I went to fish in Tea Creek, I thought that it was just stocked with rainbow trout and brookies, but it was actually an extremely good native stream! I caught 4 of them, I had to climb through trees and bushes to get to them, but it was worth it. Here's a kinda crappy picture of one.

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[Elliot]

After fishing in the creek, my dad made us fired bologna sandwiches for lunch!

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That evening we sat around and had a campfire, and I got a kinda neat fire light picture of my bike.

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When we woke up in the morning, we went to fish the big Williams River, which is famous for its great trout fishing. For whatever reason, we saw too many trout to count, but my dad was the only one who caught any. I got a good picture of the river while I was taking a break.
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On the last day of vacation before we packed up to leave, my dad and my uncle and I rode to an old tunnel blasted straight through a mountain, and I found this little guy.

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSC029741.JPG

[Elliot]

On the way back, we drove through Logan, where my dad ran heavy equipment on a strip mine. We saw a huge dump truck and a big bulldozer, which kinda brought him back.

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/DSC03004.JPG

That's all I have, I'm really bad at writing so try to bear with me lol

[adamanteus]

Bad at writing? No way! That was great, really well written. Great photos too. But why does the Western Ribbon Snake look like a salamander?:eek: Okay, you're tired.:rolleyes: Welcome back, and thanks for sharing, sounds like you had a really good time.

[Elliot]

Bad at writing? No way! That was great, really well written. Great photos too. But why does the Western Ribbon Snake look like a salamander?:eek: Okay, you're tired.:rolleyes: Welcome back, and thanks for sharing, sounds like you had a really good time.

Thanks, the western ribbon part is my sig line though lol

[adamanteus]

Doh!:o Okay, it's me who's really tired!

[drache]

Looks like you had a reassy nice time