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point: 33.926604399603534,-83.3854269439668
location: Athens,Georgia,United States
image: 2014/baxter-maine.jpg
desc: Loons, Maine, Memorial Park
dek: Loons, Maine, Memorial Park. *What that sound is?*
pub_date: 2014-11-09T20:30:48
slug: memorial-park
title: Memorial Park
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The first time I ever heard a loon was canoe camping beside a pond in Baxter State Park, Maine. When you have no idea what *that sound* is (*what that sound is?* -L and O), a loon call in the dark is terrifying.
It's a been a long time since then, but I'll never forget that sound. I think about it every time we walk around the pond at Memorial Park.
<img src="[[base_url]]2014/pond-in-maine-baxter-state-park.jpg" alt="Pond in Baxter State Park Maine" class="picwide" />
The pond at Memorial Park looks nothing like this one, which is the one I camped by in Maine, but memory is a funny thing. For whatever reason the little pond at Memorial Park reminds me of that one in Maine. There is no physical resemblance at all. Baxter is a wild place with few people around. The pond at Memorial Park is the opposite. There's even a fountain in the middle. Still, something about it.
L and O have never heard a loon, never been to Baxter State Park. Yet.
They're happy with the swings and the slides and the ducks.
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Geese they are not such big fans of, but last week the geese weren't around. Just ducks.
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And climbing, you can never climb atop too many rocks.
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