Originally Posted By: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor

Round Valley Reservoir from this photo certainly looks like a true wilderness spot, but looks can be deceptive.

Just over the ridge line on the other side is one of those suburban sprawl property developments with a golf course bang in the middle (gated community possibly, can't really tell using google earth). Golf Courses just like reservoirs tend be highly sanatised places just as suburban and urban folks like them that way.


It's quite a bit less built up than that, but yeah, there's a lot of pressure around it.

The kids aren't ready for true wilderness camping (yet), we're working up to it. From the air, you can really see that this place is an anomaly - wooded, and quiet (no we didn't hear the morning chorus at all)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Clinton,+NJ&ie=UTF8&ll=40.614474,-74.827366&spn=0.072322,0.138531&t=h&z=13

We camped on the south shore, about center of the pic. You can see the sheltering ridge to the south - kept the noise out.

But the question was simple - where were all the animals?