When I was a kid, Duck Bay was a grassy area with a handful of trees and an eroded bank. We did, literally, used to feed the ducks right there. At this point it's so overgrown you hardly know there's water in there! That particular segment of trail isn't particularly amazing, but does lead back towards the Visitor's Center and Azalea Way. The region to the west of Duck Bay used to be a casual sex hookup destination. Maybe it still is? I don't know. We basically never went over there as kids, and I don't know if that's because adults discouraged us or because we concluded there wasn't much of interest in that part of the park, heh. One of the 520 Ramps to Nowhere also ended over there and adventurous people could jump off it into the water before it got torn down.
So much personal history in the area.
We did mail back the weather balloon - there wasn't much info about what data it was collecting, specifically. S says that they fill them with a gas mix to favor some specific height so they can track wind speed and direction, then the balloon explodes and the parachute is supposed to help salvage the instruments. In this case, however, the parachute didn't fully deploy properly because its string must have tangled in the balloon shreds. But it may not have mattered if the instruments landed directly in the river.
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When I was a kid, Duck Bay was a grassy area with a handful of trees and an eroded bank. We did, literally, used to feed the ducks right there. At this point it's so overgrown you hardly know there's water in there! That particular segment of trail isn't particularly amazing, but does lead back towards the Visitor's Center and Azalea Way. The region to the west of Duck Bay used to be a casual sex hookup destination. Maybe it still is? I don't know. We basically never went over there as kids, and I don't know if that's because adults discouraged us or because we concluded there wasn't much of interest in that part of the park, heh. One of the 520 Ramps to Nowhere also ended over there and adventurous people could jump off it into the water before it got torn down.
So much personal history in the area.
We did mail back the weather balloon - there wasn't much info about what data it was collecting, specifically. S says that they fill them with a gas mix to favor some specific height so they can track wind speed and direction, then the balloon explodes and the parachute is supposed to help salvage the instruments. In this case, however, the parachute didn't fully deploy properly because its string must have tangled in the balloon shreds. But it may not have mattered if the instruments landed directly in the river.