10/14/2003: Canadian badlands

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Originally posted by Undertoad
Springsteen was talking about north Jersey shoreland so you know he is a poet who can make that kind of metaphor.

Relief was a lightship temporarily replacing Ambrose Light at the entrance to NY harbor. It was overrun by a freighter during heavy fog. Divers talk about visiting this wreck. But caution that diving should be coordinated with the tide. When water comes with the outgoing tide (from areas around those Badlands), visibility disappears. Simply bath in that surf. Where are your feet? Its called clean only because the bateria count is low. What is all that other stuff? Where did it come from?

Badlands have far ranging adverse effects - even eight miles out to sea.