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I couldn’t believe the day that my dad called the house to tell me he was lost. Of course I immediately got worried and began to panic. My first thought was “oh my God he’s got Alzheimer’s or something worse!” He was a taxi driver for Pete’s sake, so this couldn’t be happening. So, I began asking him a series of rapid, and decisive questions. What’s near you, can you see any restaurants, is there anyone around that can help you, are there street signs, did you cut off the car? Arrgghh!

It was a complete surprise and relief when he said, “Rabbit, there are some new streets on this side of town and I’m not sure where my turn to get to the range is. What, did you think your old man was getting old?” Well, yeah I did, but I was relieved to know he was still capable of being in his right mind.

When I got time, I searched different places in search of a GPS for my dad. It must have been a simple process, because after he pulled over and got out of his car, he looked up our numbers in his black book to use his pre-programmed mobile phone. He would still have his old humongous phone, if I hadn’t shown him different.

Well after two thousand questions to over a dozen clerks, and store attendants, I finally found the Navigon 2100T portable GPS. I thought the portable feature was really great in the sense that he could put it in either the car or the truck. It’s also not big and bulky like the Cobra GPSM 2500, or too small like the Magellan Roadmate. I mean come on, he does wear bifocals!

The other neat feature I liked was the 3 D images that Navigon 2100T portable GPS offers. I didn’t find this on any of the other models I looked at. It gives a very realistic look to the roads that will make my dad’s navigation attempts a lot easier.

It also comes with “test to speech” technology. Wow what a great little feature. I’ve heard GPS systems in the past that tell you turn left 15 miles down the road. This neat little machine tells you to turn left at “Carlisle Street.” My dad knows streets. Guesstimating 15 miles is a stretch. He’s too proud to touch the little button that measures your distance on the car. By the time you’ve turned down the wrong road, you’re five minutes into it before you realize it was the next left. But not with the Navigon 2100T portable GPS system.

It also has a replaceable SD card that can be updated for new traffic control. That way it you are having difficulties it can provide you with different ways to get to your location.

Not to mention, the price wasn’t bad at all. I finally caved in on Amazon and got two for a little over $300. Well, I had to have one too. In less than a month, my dad had out done me and was showing me how to use my Navigon 2100T portable GPS.

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We were both thirteen years old and backpacking in Michigan without adults (times were different back then). Camping miles from the nearest road, in a single-wall pup tent, we tried not to move too much, because doing so resulted in a shower of icy crystals raining down on us - the frozen condensation from our own breath. When we got up that morning, the thermometer read ten or eleven degrees below zero.

We got out of the tent and everything was glittering with those same crystals, which only seem to form on the coldest days. Jim suggested that we should take off our coats, sweaters and shirts and shake them out. They get flattened by sleeping in them, and this would fluff them up, making them warmer. That was his theory. Soon we were standing there in the snow at ten below with our bare skin turning red.

Fortunately, we were able to dress again before losing the feeling in our fingers. Fluffing up the clothing did help it to trap more air and insulate better, so we warmed up quickly. Probably this would have been a better idea after we had the fire going, but it worked. Add it to your list of ways to stay warm when backpacking, but you might want to do it before you leave your tent (provided it is dry in there). What else can you do to stay warm?

Staying Warm While Backpacking - Six More Ways

1. Stay dry.

Always keep as dry as possible when there is a chance of getting cold. It is always surprising to me how often I see hikers walking right through streams without rolling up their jeans. Given how slowly jeans dry, this usually means being wet when the sun sets. Roll up those pants! Put on your rain pants when walking through dew-covered tall grass and bushes. Dry your wet socks by hanging them on your pack.

2. Have the right clothing.

The jeans mentioned above shouldn’t be part of most backpacking trips. Jeans are too difficult to dry. Good hiking pants made of some type of brushed nylon (nylon that feels soft and comfortable), dry fast. I have seen my pants dry in less than thirty minutes after a good soaking. If the weather calls for long underwear, use polypropylene or some similar material that will stay warm when wet and dry easily. The same goes for other clothing. Avoid cotton.

3. Dress in layers.

Layers of clothing trap more insulating air and keep you warmer. Having more layers rather than one thick coat also means you can more easily adjust for differing conditions. That is important to keep you from sweating. If you sweat too much, the wetness can cause you to get chilled when you stop exerting yourself. Dress in layers, then, and remove them as you warm up.

4. Eat and drink properly.

Hot liquids will warm you up - no surprise there. But many people do not realize that foods are not all equal in their ability to produce heat in our bodies. Fats actually produce heat as they are digested, which is part of the reason that whale blubber is eaten in arctic areas. Army survival courses teach soldiers to eat large chunks of butter to stay warn in winter conditions. For backpacking purposes, you can have olive oil on your pasta or eat oily foods like corn chips to get the same warming effect.

5. Learn how to make and place shelters.

A simple shelter of sticks covered with piles of dry leaves and grass can insulated you and save your life if you are caught out in the winter without a tent. Learning how to make a few of these simple shelters is smart planning for possible emergencies. But even if you have a tent with you, it matters where you set it up. It is normally colder the higher you go, but cold air also collects in the bottoms of valleys at night and into the morning. A level area somewhere in between is best. Try to find a place out of the wind as well.

6. Learn a few tricks for staying warm.

Apart from the basic principles of staying warm during winter backpacking, there are a lot of little tricks you can learn and use. Fully fluffing up a sleeping bag, for example, makes it more effective. Doing sit-ups in your bag before going to sleep gets you a warm start to the night. Some water bottles or canteens can be filled with hot water and kept in the bag with you (some bottles will distort if filled with boiling water). Keeping water bottles inside your clothing during strenuous hiking keeps them warmer, so later you won’t have to drink cold water, which can suck away some of your heat in the evening.

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You can improve your catches instantly by taking the step of trying new things, trying new combinations of things you may already know work and trying things you do not know work or not. Remember it is the things that carp have never regularly experienced previously that mostly catch those dream catches you hope for, so here’s a few perhaps familiar and unfamiliar tricks you might try with your baits to stimulate your catch rate! Soak your baits in a dip; whether meat, nuts or particle baits, pellets, boilies dips and bait soaks work!

Oil rich dips and those rich in amino acids are outstanding and can come from simple homemade sources like tinned tuna oil mixed with liver pate and garlic salt for instance. Or maybe try shrimp paste with diluted fruit cordial juice and yeast extract; you do not need to spend a fortune on readymade dips or soaks etc. Don’t boil your hook baits; steam them instead to allow far more nutritional attraction and stimulation to release into the water instead of being sealed inside and largely wasted!

Paste or dough is great used as a coating around all kinds of other hook baits. With paste you know there is no barrier from boiled protein as with conventional boilies that prevent most of your baits attraction from reaching the fish to stimulate them into feeding! Among the items around the kitchen to use are tinned salmon, tuna, herring, mackerel, anchovies and pilchards which can all be made into paste with added eggs and wheat flour to bind; it’s simple but works!

Many anglers under-exploit their readymade baits they use because they have a relatively impervious surface. You can break-up this surface with a baiting needle, or sharp pointed knife or scissors to get more attraction out of your bait. Making your hook baits irregular shapes with irregular surfaces helps by making fish think your bait has been previously chewed on by other fish and so is safer.

I bet you never tried coating all your free baits with paste as well as your hook baits. You could try fishing a red fish meal hook bait with a pink liver paste or a meat based bait with a fish based paste; just experiment with colours, flavours and any kind of baits together! Even coating particle baits like smaller pellets or tiger nuts with paste is very worth doing!

Making the leap of faith and trying coating pop-up buoyant baits with paste is a very good edge indeed and extremely well proven! The pop-up or semi-buoyant hook bait has no need to be like the paste around it and in fact the more alternative your paste is the better. Coating pop-up baits with paste is a great edge which is little-used by the majority of carp anglers and as you can see, these things just take a little lateral thinking utilising what we are already using.

You can add cork granules and other very light or buoyant ingredients to make it float or hang in the water off the bottom or silt or weed for instance. Imagine the advantage of using a buoyant paste around a bottom bait or semi-buoyant bait and how frequently your fish will have had to deal with this! Using buoyant paste around bottom sinking hook baits can seriously save you blank sessions!

It is beyond question that carp and many other fish learn through experience and repetition not least in regards being hooked on any particular bait or rig. Obviously the greatest edge is to make sure your baits represent as little association with any previous encounter as possible; and even instil confident feeding. Fish certainly remember far longer than just seconds or individual fish would always be easy to catch every time, so do yourself a favour and look further into how to make your baits different; and reap the huge rewards - this fishing bait secrets ebooks author has many more fishing and bait edges; just one could impact very significantly on your catches!

By Tim Richardson.

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As our society turns progressively more technical and urbanized, many folks are getting to feel the want to break away from it all. Outdoor sports give an great escape from city life, but one should keep common sense survival skills in mind in order to have fun in the outdoors with no critical worries.

More people are starting to feel the urge to get away from it all, take a break from modern life and go back to the way things were for our ancestors. Perhaps this explains the rising popularity of camping holidays, the ultimate experience of going back to nature and living in the wild, with only a basic structure for shelter and a fire for cooking.

Naturally, many people don’t exactly do it that way. Camper vans are common, and all forms of electrical appliances have been modified for camping - there are even camp microwaves. Most people regard at least modern toilets and showers to be a campsite requirement, no matter if it’s actually faithful to the feel of the outdoors. Camping doesn’t really require being an outdoors affair if you don’t want it to be, as many camper vans aren’t that much unlike from homes on wheels, and many families rest in them for the majority of their holiday. It’s all about doing what you feel at ease with.

For passionate campers, however, the most earnest form of camping is camping that calls for survival skills, for instance, devouring wild caught food, finding your way around by the location of the sun and constructing fire. You would have to be incredibly hungry to consume the animals that can be found in the woods of most countries, however, and in these areas, camping with facilities and brought food is often more accepted.

A basic survival tool is a good flashlight. There are many newer LED flashlights which are very bright, and long lasting on battery life. Even better in an emergency is a crank or shake flashlight which requires no batteries, and it will always be there in an emergency.

Most campgrounds are in woods or open fields, and are often publically-owned - if you would like to find one, they should be distinctly marked on maps for walkers and on road signs for cars. It’s up to you what you take with you, but most people will opt to have at least a tent, sleeping bags, torches, and either a tool for making firewood or a portable oven where campfires aren’t allowed.

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How would you go about starting camping out, if you have never been before? Before preparing for the camping trip first you have decide where would to spend the trip and how long would the last camping trip The most important thing you need to decide is, would you like to rent your camping out equipment or would you like to possess your own stuff?

A new camper must keep these essential things in mind. You may have gotten your beliefs of camping life from seeing cases in the movies. It that is the situation then you will want to make that camping idea your own and try it out for yourself. Without the need of a motor home with running water and plumbing system, I know campers who when they find their perfect place to camp, will pitch a tent ,and others that would never consider camping. To enjoy their camping experience some individuals prefer no tent or cover at all and set up a hammock between two trees. Some of them will drink out of streams and even eat wild vegetation to create their unique camping out experience. No one individuals idea of camping out is wrong and it is up to their own rendering of a camping experience.

When preparing your camping adventure, your own camping out needs and desires should be adopted. You can go easier on your first few camping out trips by choosing a site with running water. Though you are not going to dig up roots to feed on as if you are having a wild outside meal, but while camping you are out of the comfort zone which you are always used to in your daily life. The first step to making your camping out reality starts in your mind!

To avoid disappointment you should know that your first time camping will not go without some bumps. Most of the equipment we use in camp are foreign for first time campers but this equipment is common in a camp. Because of this you need to relax a little so that your camping out experience can roll out in a fantastic and enjoyable manner. Just think of the stories you will have when you try a new experience, and go on your first camping trip.

xSome households have a long tradition of camping out on holidays, spring break, summer and family reunions. It is a great way to bond with family without the disturbance of modern technology and neighbors. It is widely believed that kids are the most interesting camping out enthusiasts, they are always ready to plan for a camping excursion. Camping out trips are exciting for children and a great time for them to learn novice things. Young people are so flexible to camping conditions so if you have a chance to camp with younger family members, make sure you don’t pass up the chance.

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Knife Design Philosophy

If you have ever watched any of the Bear Grylls 'Born Survivor' TV series or Ray Mears 'Extreme Survival' you will doubtless have noticed how both Bear and Ray always carry a good quality knife.

Knives have been used since the stone age when man made remarkably effective and sharp cutting tools from flint and obsidian. The knife is both a versatile and practical tool and a frighteningly effective weapon. They've received a lot of bad press lately due to the number of violent knife crimes on our streets.

But knives are not bad, unlike some of the idiots who carry them. They are practical tools that, when camping or in a survival situation, you would be glad to have.

When camping out a knife can be used in any number of ways including:

• Cutting branches for fire wood
• Preparing kindling
• Cutting rope or string
• Making tent pegs
• Skinning rabbits
• Preparing food
• Almost everything…

Its always good to have the right knife for the job. The swiss-army knife is a good example of a practical folding knife that often has a huge selection of tools suitable for a range of applications. While the variety of tools provided by a Swiss Army knife can be appealing a good, strong, sharp knife blade is the essential requirement.

Knives that are good for camping don't really need to be very large. Ideally the knife should have a high carbon steel blade that will not corrode and will hold and good sharp cutting edge. Your selected knife may have a fixed or folding blade. Knives with folding blades should ideally lock when the blade is exposed to prevent accidents. Your chosen knife should have an appropriate handle that is comfortable and the right size for your hand. The knife blade should have a good sharp point and the handle may have a strong rear bolster (the bit at the end of the handle) which can be used as a hammer.

If you select a fixed blade knife it will need a suitable sheath that, ideally, you can mount on your belt. You will need a whetstone to keep the blade sharp. For fishing and hunting, you may like to use a knife that has a partially serrated edge, ideal for cutting through bone.

Whatever you choose a knife is an essential part of your camping equipment. While you may be arrested for carrying a knife in towns and cities you shouldn't be without one in the great outdoors.

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The most successful baits are different to ones that have caught them previously so the biggest point is to make your bait alternative and new to versions of baits which have been previously successful! All fish have a strong survival instinct and will relate baits they have been hooked on before with danger, with enough exposure. To keep using a bait just because it worked previously is not necessarily the best thing to do when your fish may already be feeding far more warily on it, making hooking them far harder!

Improving your baits competitive edges is all about adapting their ingredients or adding extra ones soaked in, or treating the bait with a new process so it smells and tastes different to its previous version. Other carp can senses come into the equation and be exploited in regards to texture, colour, density, shape, buoyancy, firmness, solubility and permeability etc. However you do it, changing a bait in even one small way can sustain your results on it or even totally transform your results far more positively!

Now it is true that much about baits is marketing and gimmicks to catch the attention of angler, just the same as a the flashy paint and spoilers of a car have bear zero impact on its function. However, the fishing bait industry provides us with numerous trustworthy substances to exploit to alter our baits to prolong their effective function and effect. But many of these get over-used and it is a top idea to find new and interesting other ingredients and flavors etc not currently sold for fishing purposes!

It has been said that even changing to a new flavor can improve results and this is true. Flavors are probably the most famous and popular but least understood fishing bait ingredients for thousands of fish species. They can be exceptionally varied in their contents and effects upon fish senses and how they work is often shrouded in theories and tank tests with little in common with real fishing conditions.

The smell and taste of a bait can simply originate from innate flavors in the base mix and most carp anglers forget that even soya flour, semolina, maize meal, wheat flour or rice flour all have unique tastes and smells which even humans can appreciate with our blunted senses compared to acutely sharp carp ones. Once the stronger more highly soluble flavor substances have leached out of a bait you are left with those possibly less concentrated ones which still tempt fish. At this stage you are dependant upon the more nutritional stimulatory substances naturally within your bait ingredients to induce a bite.

Big carp can come from any bait from highly flavored ones to ones with zero added flavor including plastic and rubber baits and even artificial lures and live baits. Carp do go predatory at times and are programmed to detect exploit any potential suitable new food source. Various anglers argue the cases for using rubber and plastic baits and others recommend highly flavored instant attractor baits or balanced profile biologically beneficial food baits.

It is obvious that nearly any bait will catch a carp once. Much of the reason fake plastic and rubber baits catch carp is the lack of suspicion aroused by them, compared to conventional round boilies for example. This often because they do not contain the concentrated substances carp can recognise and relate to previous experiences of getting caught, but even these baits are far from sterile, having natural and human hand added attraction too like butyric acid.

Food ultimately comes down to the supply of energy and its efficient use in our bodies and fish are just the same. Any aspect of bait which can provide more efficient use of energy, or at least appear to can be fantastic to use in baits and many are waiting to be discovered and exploited. As big fish have a greater energy requirement it stands to reason that these respond to such substances rather well. If you consider that oils, betaine and even amino acids have a tendency to promote growth and have significant relevance in the use or supply of energy, it is not a surprise they are potent fish feeding triggers!

Fish and humans share many of the same vital processes and body chemicals we need to survive. A familiar and popular bait additive today is betaine which fish and we use in digestive juices which is also significantly used to remove harmful products in the body. Betaine is one of those substances which is found naturally abundant in nature and which our and fish bodies extract from natural foods for a balanced healthy body. So it makes sense being abundant in our natural foods that our bodies can instinctively senses its need for it and our food detection senses code for this substance strongly.

Not surprisingly carp are highly stimulated by betaine as it has essential parts to play within its body and its feed triggering effects upon carp sensory mechanisms are is well recommended; especially with amino acids in your baits! The needs of carp for betaine are so high that it beats the intensity of feeding response to a range of well known stimulatory amino acids, the essential building blocks of proteins for growth for example. In fact betaine plays a great role in the formation of digestive juices especially for the digestion of proteins; human and carp digestion and enzymes are significantly similar in very many ways which we can exploit in our baits!

You can help your bait enhancing and bait making efforts enormously by looking at how the food we eat is formulated. The food industry go to great lengths to get substances in our food which make you eat more of it, even to the extent of training our taste buds with all that sugar, salt, yeast extract, and the vast number of other healthy and unhealthy additives hidden away in long ingredients lists. When I began writing books and articles many scoffed (please excuse the pun,) at my claims that there are many addictive substances to exploit for use in baits for big fish; just 2 clues are the capsaicin receptors found in carp, and the addictive effects of certain cereal gluten substances which release feel-good but addiction forming endorphins in carp brains! Fishing blends well with other outdoors recreation and sport activities like hunting, camping, boating and other such hobbies and but so knowing as much as possible about your improving your fishing baits will ensure you always have better results; guaranteed!

By Tim Richardson.

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If you have a plan to go camping , you might consider to use a tent

Nowadays, there are variations of camping tents. There are tents for one person, tents for two people, and tents for entire families. Camping tents are everywhere and people do have fun using them. One place you should look at when you try to find camping tents is Walmart camping tents.

Good camping tents would have room for chatting , cooking and sleeping . It is nice to have your own rooms and you should never get difficulties to buy that nowadays. Tents that have private rooms for relaxing are ideal for camping. Adding the screen tent will make you have a good camping site.

Walmart - Camping Tents

Walmart is one of online store with great camping tents variation. You can view many tents, starting from the Coleman, Aerobeds and others. You can also choose to buy individual tents or family tents.

Individual tents are so compact that they do not take up any space at all when traveling. They are great for hikers because they fold down small enough to fit on top or on the bottom of your backpack. These camping tents do come in handy for many different things.

Family tents for sure is bigger than individual tents. Three separate rooms allow children to sleep in their own area while the parents sleep in the larger middle section.

The thing everyone needs to remember about camping tents, including Walmart camping tents, is that must be dry before putting away. If they are not dry, it will caused small leaks throughout the tent. Camping tents can become covered with mildew and the mold and mildew can eat right through the canvas or nylon.

The material of which family camping tents are made should also be considered, as may of the new tents are designed to be tear resistant as well as waterproof. Despite what the weather report claims, it is always best to plan for the worst and enjoy the great weather when it comes.

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Saving yourself the cost of expensive bait is one of the most important factors in fishing success for many carp fishermen. It can take quantities of expensive readymade bait to achieve great results and if you have a way of making this very quickly and very cheaply then you can save yourself untold fortunes and catch as many if not more fish than on readymade baits. Once you have a few basic bits of information on making baits you are free to create unique economical baits for big fish for years to come and save yourself a real fortune!

Carp live on mostly protein based foods which contain essential fats and oils which provide most of their energy; in their natural water environment carbohydrate foods are rare. In contrast to humans therefore, carp do not use carbohydrates, but oils and proteins for their energy requirements and process these extrememely efficiently which is not surprising as carp have long evolved to do this. This is why making baits using protein ingredients is more beneficial from a dietary needs of carp perspective and also why protein ingredients and oils are so feed-stimulatory to carp too.

There are around 10 basic essential amino acids that carp need although there are a few others, but let’s keep things as simple as possible for now. These include: lysine, methionine, arginine, phenylalanine, valine, tryptophan, leucine, isoleucine, histidine and threonine. Carp eat foods containing these amino acids because they are essential. Using almost anything that a fish basically needs to survive can give you the edge you need to get bites although exploiting fish nutritional needs are not the only way to get bites; in fact, far from it!

It may be no surprise that both humans and carp have evolved in part due to the energy providing foods available for us to exploit in our environments. We can exploit how these foods are detected by smell and taste for example, by boosting the levels of the most highly stimulating substances within our baits. These may consist of natural food sources of soluble amino acids, flavors or even using specialist hormone preparations etc, but there are thousands to choose from!

Amino acid needs of carp are important because we can exploit them even in very simple baits to induce better feeding on baits and more bites. But these essential are not absolutely necessary to catch fish on homemade baits; far from it in fact and you can very often catch fish on competitive pressured fisheries on simple carbohydrate wheat and soya type baits which are extremely economical to make! To keep ahead of the fish you might simply just change certain aspects of the bait like attractors such as flavours or even treacles, honey, molasses, cordial syrups, or liqueurs etc.

There seems to be some snobbery in regards to protein based baits compared to using cereal or carbohydrate based baits for example based on wheat or semolina or soya flour. In fact many very economical baits can be made from these ingredients which will just keep catching carp on many fisheries for years. All you need to do to keep catching carp on many waters is to keep changing your attractors regularly as in flavours, various specialist protein extracts, and proprietary fish stimulants and so on.

Often artificially stocked fisheries contain fish which now treat anglers baits as natural food and these fish literally live on them as opposed to just natural food which may or may not be readily available. Homemade baits will catch on the easiest overstocked or richest or under-stocked waters; what do think the early bait pioneers used? Why keep buying readymade bait for 10 pounds when you can produce your own unique baits for a fraction of the cost and very little time or effort when I’ve found over the last 30 years that you can catch against any readymade bait using homemade baits no matter what they are based on!

Many carp fishermen get confused between the nutritional aspect of bait as opposed to the stimulatory aspect and assume that a bait absolutely needs to be totally nutritionally attractive and stimulating as a complete food in order to do the job, but this is just not true. Many perceived simple ingredients may have very surprising nutritional attraction in any key aspect whether it be vitamins, or minerals, oils or some other aspect like simulating something which carp naturally eat confidently (many flavours do this but have zero nutritional value.) It is a fact however, that amino acids rank among the most highly feeding stimulatory substances for carp and so exploiting this aspect in your baits is advantageous, but then you have endless other possibilities and combinations to choose from, to save you money and hook you those dream fish; all you need is to know a bit more about bait!

By Tim Richardson.

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Thinking of an outdoor adventure near home? Why not try the Garden State? When it comes to adventures of the nature kind, New Jersey has some exciting finds to offer. It gives you and your family the same enjoyment without having to travel half way across the country. Whatever your taste for adventure is, New Jersey’s diverse ecological wonders are sure to tickle your fancy.

New Jersey boasts 127 miles of beach overviewing the Atlantic. It’s many commercial ports aren’t the only thing that finds the sea scapes of New Jersey refreshing. There are plenty of ocean adventures waiting for the ocean enthusiast in everyone. You can go on a marine safari on the back of a dolphin or go up close and personal with the whales that inhabit the state’s unspoiled underwater paradise.

The animals in New Jersey’s excellent wildlife are as amazing to watch as they are diverse. If you want to watch whales, there are boat tours which take you to experience these great mammals in the flesh. Or you can stop over one of the bird watching sites along the Atlantic City Flyway and take a refreshing look at herons, shore birds or the northern diamondback terrapin.

If you’re itching for nature, the Garden State has plenty of protected wildlife reserves, national parks and camping grounds like Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, to give you your fix for natural activities, or just offer you a breath of fresh air. Outdoor enthusiasts are sure to find what they’re looking for in New Jersey.

You can strap your skis for a skiing adventures in the snow counties or pedal a path through unexplred woods and mountainlands, the abundance of activities never end for both you and New Jersey. Go fishing in the rivers that flow to the Atlantic and share salmons with the bears or ride your canoe to meet the ocean. New Jersey is the ideal place to get a natural vacation.

Lying between two bustling metropolis, New Jersey is not just your average center for commerce with a great service economy. Just look a little closer and you’ll find that this little state has more to offer adventurers than what meets the eye.

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