Hampton Roads Life » Virginia Beach http://www.hamptonroadslife.com Another day in the life of America's first region Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:51:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 SOPA PROTESTS http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/2012/01/18/sopa-protests/ http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/2012/01/18/sopa-protests/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:59:11 +0000 HRLife http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/?p=613 http://sopastrike.com/#how-to-strike

]]> http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/2012/01/18/sopa-protests/feed/ 0 30.4486732 -72.9492188 West Neck Creek Natural Area http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/2009/02/08/west-neck-creek-natural-area/ http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/2009/02/08/west-neck-creek-natural-area/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:51:03 +0000 HRLife http://hamptonroadslife.com/?p=429 I guess the best way to describe the West Neck Creek Natural Area in Virginia Beach, is raw. There is a relatively short paved path, if I had to guess I would say it is somewhere between a quarter and half mile long, terminating at a bridge. There are a couple of more primitive trails that are kind of hard to find and follow, these trails are marked by blue paint on trees along the paved path. The paint markings continue along the trail as well as weed stop cloth, but that was a little hard to follow because of all the leaf litter on the ground. You will have to climb over some downed trees, and such, but nothing that difficult.

To try the trails I would recommend that when you enter the trail from the parking lot, take the first left, keep an eye to the trees on the left, after about 100 yards or less you’ll see 2 trees with 3 blue dots, the is the beginning of one of the trails, the trail will eventually meet back up to the paved trail, near the bridge. Go left on the paved trail, and cross the bridge, I ran in to a bit of mud after a bit, but it looked like you could go further. if you go right from the bridge, you’ll end up at a house (City?), you can then make a right here and up the gravel road and loop back to the parking lot.

This is a nice place to spend an hour or so with the family.

 

Entrance Drainage Bridge Path Sun through trees Sun shining through the trees Early Green Bridge Paved Path Tree in a tree Leaning trees Trailhead

 

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If you plan on visiting, the entrance is a little deceptive, you want to park in the paved parking lot, the straight gravel road that appears to be the entrance is actually a maintenance road.

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Tonight there are about a dozen people out fishing, and while we were there, a couple had hooked up with a couple ~45″ Red Drum.

A nighttime view of Sandbridge Pier Someone has hooked a fish. a Red Drum Waiting on the tape measure Normal fishing, waiting on the next bite ]]> http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/2008/10/13/night-fishing-on-sandbridge-pier/feed/ 0 Sandbridge – Little Island http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/2008/10/05/sandbridge-little-island/ http://www.hamptonroadslife.com/2008/10/05/sandbridge-little-island/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:42:07 +0000 HRLife http://hamptonroadslife.com/?p=259 Sandbridge Beach, at Little Island park

 

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