ABOUT THE PARK:
PSEG Estuary Enhancement Program - PSEG
Alloway Creek Watershed Wetland Restoration Site Overview - PSEG
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| Nuclear plant emergency information? You'll see why in a minute. |
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 39.52255, -75.50758
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| Parking lot on the right almost at the end of Money Island Road. Money Island Road is pretty chunked up with potholes but doable with maneuvering around and over them. |
TRAIL MAP:
Alloway Creek Watershed Public Use Map - PSEG
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HIKE DISTANCE:
Commercial Township Wetlands Restoration Site - 4 miles
hiked together with (19 mile drive)
Cohansey River Watershed Wetland Restoration Site - 1 mile
hiked together with (27 mile drive)
Alloway Creek Watershed Wetland Restoration Site - 1.5 miles
THE HIKE:
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| Starting out on the trail. |
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| The trail immediately goes through a power cut with the Salem Nuclear Power Plant off to the left. |
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| And looking back towards the parking lot, a fake owl on top of the sirens. It's about the only wildlife we would see on this hike. |
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| What marshes are supposed to look like with invasive phragmites gone. |
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| The trail forks right ... |
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| ... then right again to ... |
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| ... a bird blind. |
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| It would have been too difficult to get into with the wheelchair but there were no birds anyway. |
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| Lots to sniff. |
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| At an observation platform Shawnee was taken out of her wheelchair to render her immobile so she would not roll herself over or into the marshes. |
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| Waiting patiently. |
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| I had one heck of a time figuring out this bridge but finally found it - the Reedy Point Bridge on Route 9 in Delaware. |
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| And to the left, a full view of the nuclear power plant, where, incidentally, actor Bruce Willis once worked as a security guard, according to Wikipedia. |
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| A view of the trail from the observation platform. |
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| Completing the loop. |
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| Heading back towards the power cut. |
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| A turkey vulture. |
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| He apparently decided to make himself comfortable. |
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| Back at the parking lot. |
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| And a close look at that lazy turkey vulture. |
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| There is another observation deck a short distance farther along Money Island Road but the road surface was so bad with no way to get around the potholes so I aborted that part of the plan. |
