The swimmin hole....

[josephmrtn]

this is where we swim...

view from shore (at base of bridge)

 

view from top

[wooly]

Any crocs? Gators? Snappers? Raw sewage runoff? 

Looks too peacefull to not have some kind of unknown risk involved.

[PREDATE]

Is that a working rail line?

[Doc]

We used to swim in the local creek across the road. When we got finished, we would get busy pulling all the blood-suckers off out feet and legs. That would absolutely gross me out today, but back then we didn't think anything about it.

 

By the way, that picture looks like there should be some good fishing there.

[josephmrtn]

Any crocs? Gators? Snappers? Raw sewage runoff? 

Looks too peacefull to not have some kind of unknown risk involved.

nope.... im sure there is some sewage sometimes...lol

 

Is that a working rail line?

no its a working 4 weeler trail/retired rail line

 

We used to swim in the local creek across the road. When we got finished, we would get busy pulling all the blood-suckers off out feet and legs. That would absolutely gross me out today, but back then we didn't think anything about it.

 

By the way, that picture looks like there should be some good fishing there.

thats one thing i LOVE about this spot... no leeches!!! no one has ever hit bottom... i heard someone measured it and it was 20ft deep i never did myself

[wooly]

nope.... im sure there is some sewage sometimes...lol

 

I wouldn't eat the brown trout from there then,lol!

....and no more pee'ing in the pool!

[New York Hillbilly]

Holy crap Doc. Leeches!!! You just freaked me out. I was never right with that thought after watching one of my favorite movies of all time as a kid, "The African Queen"......."at a girl Rosie!"

[Doc]

Holy crap Doc. Leeches!!! You just freaked me out. I was never right with that thought after watching one of my favorite movies of all time as a kid, "The African Queen"......."at a girl Rosie!"

Yup, the mud bottom of the crick was full of them. But back then we never thought much about it .... Just pull them off and then head home ..... lol. Yeah, today it would be a traumatic event.

[sweet old bill]

god that looks like right off of route 17. Maybe the beaverkill river.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Sweet. I used to frequent a local swimming hole like that in high school. It was (still is) an old train bridge that we would jump off of into the creek. Great fun.

[josephmrtn]

Yeah its about the best spot around.... i hope to have a GoPro video of jumping off the top within a week or so

[growalot]

That brings back a lot of great memories...Our's was called the "secret pond" and it was off and abandoned rail road trestle near Abby land in Piffard...all us kids would walk two miles to get to it....

[josephmrtn]

we dont walk we drive! lol i should post a vid of me cruising down the trail in my truck or the farm jeep...

[WNYBuckHunter]

That brings back a lot of great memories...Our's was called the "secret pond" and it was off and abandoned rail road trestle near Abby land in Piffard...all us kids would walk two miles to get to it....

 

I think I know that spot lol. Good 'ol Piffard.... blink and you miss it.