Yesterday Creek walk Slug Plate & Blob Top, soda TN

[CreekWalker]

Jar seals, was the object seen in the water photo. The other is a cold cream type.

 

[CreekWalker]

Cleaned med. from last weeks creek walk.

 

[CreekWalker]

Tool heads to be de-scaled , never know , one may be a Winchester, Keen-Kutter or a local hardware brand.

 

[CreekWalker]

Apple green soda or crown top ale, marked with a 3 on heel. Leaves will be covering the streams soon. Take a shovel for support , and a friend for extra eyes, and a backpack for storage. Good luck, and be careful.

 

[Nevadabottles]

Sounds like a great day, I did not know that creeks had that much to find in them.

 

[CreekWalker]

Thanks, I couldn't find anything is this stream last year, and the year before. Strong spring rains, helped dislodge the banks, and the bottles came tumbling down.

 

[Lordbud]

I got started looking for old bottles walking along a local creek back in 1972. Discovered many different dumps, picnic throws and an honest to goodness stage stop dump where the horses would have been watered at the creek -- on the way to San Francisco or San Jose. I will always associate the smell of the Eucalyptus trees (Blue Gum) which had been planted along the creek at some point to help hold the creek banks from erosion. Digging through the Eucalyptus duff and through the roots gave the digs that certain aromatic scent. Most of the creek bank dumps I dug back then featured bottles few and far between. Only once in a blue moon did a group of bottles come out of the dirt. Mostly always digging through thick clay soil, often dried to brick like consistency during the summer.

 

[CreekWalker]

Great insight , Lordbud! I try to target local community creeks, close to old stores , if possible, and then time , search events , a couple weeks after heavy rains. Many items will wash downstream never to be recovered or will be broken on rocks. Fully three feet thickness of stream bank eroded this year after the rains, items were exposed , that normally wouldn't be seen. But the hazards from fallen trees and root balls, wash out pits, broken glass, snakes, make this a hazardous endeavor! Waiting 2 weeks allows the sediment to be compacted. When fresh , this sediment is not unlike walking on wet Vaseline ! Try that formula , and possibly a creek void of worthwhile items, will be teaming with goodies!

 

[Bass Assassin]

Thanks for the post creekwalker. Great photos too!

 

[CreekWalker]

Thanks, Bass Assassin, enjoy your posts too.