Working as a naturalist for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Camping, whitewater rafting, fishing, hiking, outdoor education, and a LOT of beer.
My summer job
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October 4, 2009 at 11:02 am
holey sheet
trade me jobs for 1 week every month, plox
October 4, 2009 at 2:47 pm
What natedog said. I’m also marking this place on my places-to-visit-America-map, ’cause there’s definitely some magic going on in the third picture.
October 4, 2009 at 3:45 pm
wow, i’m down for where you work.
October 4, 2009 at 8:03 pm
That would be a great place to smoke pot.
October 7, 2009 at 3:05 am
You can always smoke pot while looking at the pics. I mean, ya know, make do with what you got.
October 5, 2009 at 12:12 pm
As beautiful as these pics look and as a person who contracted viral meningitis from a bite many years ago all I see and can say when looking at these pics is “Fucking Mosquitoes!”
They have to be just horrendous, yes?
October 6, 2009 at 3:14 pm
No! There were no mosquitoes here. Lots of ticks, though. I got Lyme disease again this summer, but it was worth it.
This is Swallow Falls (lol) State Park in western Maryland…
We had a mother black bear and her cubs come by our campsite every night around 5:30, just sit there and stare. It was wonderful.
October 6, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I would not qualify that as ‘wonderful’.
that would be scary as shit.
were you at least armed?
October 7, 2009 at 3:41 am
Black bears are kind of small.
Mountain lions are scary. Black bears usually just kind of wander off.
October 6, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Also: Yes it was an AMAZING place to light up… Absolutely breathtaking.
October 6, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I want to live in a world where I can enjoy this, but also have a 10mb connection.
October 6, 2009 at 5:40 pm
That is the best line ever and I’m going to write it in my notebook and in other places too.
October 6, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Maya sometimes I can’t stand you. In a good way. Trust me.
October 6, 2009 at 8:47 pm
“I got Lyme disease again this year” lolol
October 6, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Yo miss purple banana, can I save the third photo, edit it and post it somewhere?
October 7, 2009 at 6:32 am
Is that bigfoot!??!!??!!??
October 7, 2009 at 7:55 am
I lost my shoes in that water… saved someone from drowning (well, exhaustion drowning, I’m no lifeguard) under one of the falls… the one with the big towering rock things you have to jump out to get to and smashed the side of my face on a third occasion when my dog tried to go faster up stream than I could.
October 7, 2009 at 8:40 am
OK – maybe its just me, but when someone says s/he is working as a naturalist – does that mean they are naked? Makes you wonder why there are no people in any of the pictures.
October 7, 2009 at 10:18 am
@etad52 Nah, no naked-ness as a Naturalist, it’s basically an outdoor educator but with a more fun title.
@dieantagonista Most certainly- is there an email I can send them to?
@Tiki We were armed with KNOWLEDGE. Also, we had a bunch of blades, and a lot of the kids we were working with are from West Baltimore, so god knows what kind of shit they smuggled out there… We had two stabbings this summer within our campers.
October 7, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Wee! I was going to ask for just that in case you said yes Рdieantagonista@gmail.com Рplease. Danke sch̦n.
October 7, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Damn. For a second there I thought that fourth picture was a bridge and thought “My, what a wonderful summer cottage that would make. No sign of goats either.”
Don’t know about bears that end of the USA, but the bears here in New Mexico (personal experience with the brown that lives out at the ranch)is that it will run away from a noisy ape. And won’t stick around a bunch of quiet ones standing around watching it.