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Our early-March Turkey Swamp Park hike started out with gently weaving leafy trails.
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A small stream slips between the trees.
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A poison ivy vine snakes up the trunk of a tree.
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In a place called Turkey Swamp Park, swampy areas were no surprise.
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The stream widens, flowing around rocks.
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Turkey Swamp Park has an open lake you can explore in a canoe.
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There are also grassy fields for tossing around a football, flying a kite, etc.
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A colorful playground waits in the shadows of the trees.
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Across the lake a roof floats within the trees.
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The mud leading up to the lake is scarred with a messy pattern of geese tracks.
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One friend poses on a bridge while another friend and I take pictures.
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An interesting tree with reddish bark intermingled with a pale green fungus.
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Bright green mossy patches sprout up randomly in the woods.
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A wooden walkway lines the edge of the lake.