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Turtle By The Lake LbNA #16212

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jan 9, 2005
Location:
City:Ferndale
County:Bucks
State:Pennsylvania
Boxes:1
Planted by:PA Maple Leaf
Found by: Auggie Doggie
Last found:Apr 21, 2013
Status:FFFFFFFFFa
Last edited:Jan 9, 2005
BOX ORIGINALLY PLANTED: 1/9/05
CLUES POSTED: 7/1/05

Lake Warren is a man-made lake in Upper Bucks County, located on the state gamelands. This lake is home to several water fowl and a few beavers. Other points of interest include the gamelands access road, which leads to several clearings, where you might spot other wildlife.

To get to the lake travel on 611 to Center Hill Road. The turnoff for it is right next to a restaraunt called the Ferndale Inn. Turn right onto Lake Warren Road, and continue down it. Pass Lonely Cottage Road on your right and go straight at a four-way intersection. A little after turn left onto Natures Way (Dirt Road). Continue down it to a parking lot. Park as far back towards the far left corner as you can.

Mapquest pinpoints the road pretty well as Natures Way, Upper Black Eddy, PA, 18972.

Park as close to the left far corner as you can. From that corner count three cement parking blocks in and face the treeline closest to you. There is a grassy trail, follow it. Manuever over several logs in the path and pass by a fallen tree that has uprooted itself. Continue on this trail, on your left there is what seems to be the remains of a fire ring. A couple steps later towards the lake the going gets muddy, head towards the high and dry mossy embankemt. From here you can get a good view of the lake. Straight ahead of you is a great close-up view of the beaver hut and on your left, across the lake is the spillway. Depending upon the time of year there may be several fish or frogs in the shallows. Backtrack 9 paces and site 60* to a tree with an odd slitted hole in it. From there walk parrallel to the lake (roughly 330*)until you find a white oak, with several young branches sticking out lower in the trunk. Just in front of the tree is a stump of a small tree that has been chewed by a beaver. A tree chewed by a beaver looks like a point with several chip marks. Just in front of that you can see there is some deadfall, but you can site some more in the distance which is held up partly in the crotch of a V-shaped tree. Make your way to that. From there look straight ahead and a bit up. There is a tree that the top has broken off of about 8 feet up. The top is still holding on to the base by a little bit.

[EDIT 7/1/07: The tree has broken free since the writing of the clues. The tall stump still remains, and you can still find the trunk on the ground]

Find your way to the place where the trunk hit the ground. At the end there is a rock split down the middle. The turtle is inside.