COOL TOOL
Google Earth has a nice new version out. Much improved is the scroll feature. I was able to find some neat geographic features that we learned about in our last camping trip— the Carolina Bays. The bays are a bit of a mystery, oval shaped depressions that cover anywhere from an acre or two to square miles. No one knows how they formed, but they’re found up and down the east coast. Evidently, the highest concentration is right around here.
If you’d like to see what Google Earth can do with these, enter 6975 Point East Dr. 28306 (yes, that’s our address). Raise the elevation to about 12 miles and scroll east until Hwy 53 is at the left edge of the screen. All of those oval shapes are Carolina Bays. There are literally hundreds of them in this one small section.
Ahh, what the heck.
