Klaus' Korner & Yorktown Battlefields
Visitors Center, Beach & Yorktown
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There's a path which starts just past the earthen dam on the right as you head towards Cook Road, which leads around the southwestern boundary of Wormley Pond. As you can see by the gnawed tree trunk on the right, evidence of the beaver population abounds. Off to the right out of this picture is a point which is Klaus' favorite swimming hole. Just on the other side of this point is one of the two beaver lodges we have found. |
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As you follow the shoreline around the pond, you come to one of the most major recognizable landmarks, that being a lone barren cedar tree out off a point of land. Just west of this point you'll find the largest beaver lodge around the pond, as shown in the image immediately below. The area around this point is quite shallow, in fact the times the pond has unfortunately drained, have revealed there is an ismus almost broaching the pond with the opposing shore. This is one of Klaus' favorite swimming spots, and he in fact knows this by name as the "swimming hole." |
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Here's the largest beaver lodges in the area. The scent of the beaver is so strong at times Klaus never wants to leave the area. This is off the trail which circumvents the southwestern boundary of Wormley Pond, but is easy to get to, if you don't mind walking through a bit of muddy marsh and along a ledge/foot trail on the bank on the other side of the first finger of the pond. |
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Klaus still is trying to figure out just what a turtle is. He smells something and hears something in there, but can't figure out what it is. |
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Here we cross the beaver dam up near the northern boundary of the pond. The native deer use the dam to cross this part of the pond. This dam provides one of two connections of the trails which circumvent both sides of the pond. Other wildlife also make use of the pond created by this dam, frogs, turtles, ducks raising their ducklings, raccoons, goundhogs and others. |
