WALKING THE UNION CANAL (cont.)

In my last Post about Walking the Union Canal, I had made a mistake that you out there never noticed.  While "out there" with the Camera, I decided to give this RAW setting on my Pentax a try and see how it works when I go to edit the Images I take.  This was not a good idea, as I found out.  When I went to view the Images I took, they came up in a whole different format than what I was used to.  I viewed the Images and gave them some correction, but when I went to Post them here they didn't show up!  This had me wondering what I did wrong.  Found that when I use the RAW setting, it makes the Image into a TIFF format that Blogger does not handle.  Oh Shit!  Looks like I can't shoot Images in the RAW setting.  I changed my Pentax back to what it was before.  Now, it works just fine, like it has always done.  So, since I could not Post any of the Images in the TIFF format, I made another trip over there this morning and shot what I messed up.  What I have to do is do some research on using the RAW format, before I go Posting anything.  So anyway .  .  .  . 

This is looking back down the Trail to Rebers Bridge Road that is in the far distance.  I will explain where Rebers Bridge Road got it's name further below.  The white sign on the tree say's that there is no fishing allowed using worms, or live bait.  Artificial lures are allowed only.  The River is just off to the right of this Image.  Sometime, I'm going to try my luck here with my Spinning Reel and see what happens.

The Trail as it looked this morning.  The old Union Canal, or what is left of it, is off to the right where all the trees are.  I was going to climb down the embankment that was once the Canal Wall, but decided against that.  It's very wet and soggy down there and probably just full of "skeeters."  Don't want too get bit up!  We had gotten some heavy rain a few day's ago, so most everything down there is muddy.  The old Canal still holds water, at places.

Sign say's 1.9mi. to Red Bridge, not 19 miles!  Stonecliffe is 4.2mi.  not 42 miles!  Kinda hard to read.  I think they forgot the period in between the numbers.  There is no way I could walk 42 miles or 19 miles!  I'd fall over dead for sure!

Just one of the foot bridges that cross over a small creek that runs into the River on the right.

This is Rebers Bridge Road.  I decided to do the "Ghost Outline" in Red, because most of the old Covered Bridges that are left over are that color. Rebers Covered Bridge used to be here instead of the metal grated bridge that was built years ago.  The old Covered Bridge somehow caught fire and burned.  Just how that happened I don't know.  I can find very little information about this old Bridge.  I don't even know just how the Bridge got it's name.  Traffic here is quite heavy.  I had to shoot this Image quick, before any cars came by.  The open metal grating on the new Bridge is a bit scary.  When you walk over it, your looking down into the River.  I was a bit fearful of that.  It's a good 20 feet drop!

This is what the old Bridge looked like back in it's day.  The picture before this one is looking down from the right side of this Image.  That stone structure on the right, is not there anymore.  I don't even know what it was.  The original stone supports for the Bridge are still there, but buried in dirt, trees, bush, and over-growth.

I think I may have stated this before, but I'm sorry to see this old Covered Bridges fading into History.  There used to be quite a few of these around this area, but no longer.  There are probably 3 or 4 of them left.  The ones that you can walk across bring back memories from an age of long ago.

Until the next time  .  .  .  .  Thanks for reading & commenting.

Les