Huckleberries have small resinous dots there. If it is late July or August, taste the berries. Stop 6 Notice the wide path that crosses the Kettle Hole trail. This is most likely an old wagon trail that might have originated as an Indian path or, before that, a deer trail. Today, many people explore these trails in order to find old garbage dumps.
Old bottles are highly prized.
What was once discarded junk of our ancestors is now thought of as valuable antiques. Stop 7 Notice that there are Pitch Pines and Scrub oaks growing in this area. Notice the canopy or tallest treetops are sparse, allowing insolation or incoming solar radiation to penetrate all the way to the forest floor. This makes the soil temperature of the Pine Barrens quite warm, as much as 20 degrees warmer than an average hardwood forest. Dig into the leaf litter .