where are we at April? the Desert of Maine
Desert of Maine, who ever heard of a desert in Maine? right? they even got a camel!
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today we're in the Desert of Maine. Did you
know that Maine had a desert? We didn't. If you're new to the channel, this is April--hey--and I'm Wayne.
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So sit back, relax and enjoy the journey! meet my friend who's your friend this is Horace
the camel really yes he's pretty cool looking yes he's very colorful like me you are colorful
i love color yep me and Horace are going to go wander through the Desert of Maine
nice you he's gonna let you ride on his back come along yeah on his hump
in 1938 the popular newspaper panel of weird facts Ripley's Believe It Or Not published a blurb about
the Desert of Maine that proclaimed where once were trees and fertile fields is now a sandy waste
this was big time exposure in a syndicated column that enjoyed a huge loyal following
appearing in 237 newspapers around the U.S. and Canada it was translated into 17
languages in nearly 30 countries around the world the feature put the Desert of Maine on the map
nationally and drew a growing stream of visitors until the early 1940s when over 50,000 people each
year were coming to see the bizarre phenomenon for--so they used to do little trolley
i still don't know how this forms i mean she rattled it off really fast but i didn't catch it
i guess this was covered well this this is not like sugar sand this is not desert sand
it's sand but it's not the same as-- on a chilly fall day in the Desert of
Maine April's all bundled up it's crazy how you the sand dunes just all of a sudden stop
and go to the woods look at this that is crazy yeah okay back to normal
nothing like eating a pine cone right full fiber yeah a little fiber
they have a couple different trails that you can jump on if you want to do a quick little hike in
the desert you got the blue trail the red trail and oh yeah the shortest way back um we're going
for the loop there might be another trail too or maybe that was just part of the blue trail i'm not
sure we didn't get a map so we're just could be out here in the desert for days without water and
food oh my god no wait i got water and of course i got food because you know i'm not gonna miss a
meal like we're in the woods though it's like not deserty yeah we're out of the desert it's
crazy how it just stops boom it's like someone turned the light switch off and the sand's going
it's kind of cool--you are on one today oh there's the green trail up here
what a green trail lots of trails you smell that yeah the pines oh the pine with the fall
guys wish you had smell-o-vision that is one of my favorite smells in the entire world
this barn over 175 years old is the only remaining evidence
that the Desert of Maine was once a fertile farm
it's just that the sand comes from a glacial deposit that
for thousands of years rested underneath a layer of topsoil
when the topsoil eroded through poor 19th century farming practices the dunes were reactivated.
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