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LEW G. BROWN 10
Lake Mattamuskeet - little known even
in North Carolina - covers about 40,000
acres at a depth of two to three feet and is
the largest natural lake in North Carolina.
Because of its shallow depth, it is attractive
to many migrating birds, especially Canada
geese, tundra swans, and northern pintail
and green-wing teal ducks.
area, taking sunrise and sunset pictures, pur- property has a house on it, the government can’t
sued tundra swans and uncovered old houses, declare that land to be wetland, which, obvious-
boats. I love to shoot old houses, and we found ly, much of the land in this area is. Thus, the old
plenty. One often wonders why the owners just houses stand and allow the owners to continue
don’t demolish the houses? I like the old houses to farm.
because if you listen carefully you can hear the As a photographer, I admire the rustic beauty
voices and the stories that must have occurred of the Lake Mattamuskeet area. As one moves
there. around the area, you also gain admiration for
wetlands the hardy people who settled this area and found
As it turns out, the law states that if a piece of ways to earn their livelihoods from the land and
the sea. As with the people who set-
tled the North Carolina mountains,
they had to solve problems often
with few resources and little outside
help. Digging the canals, building
the pumping station, and creating
the lake are testimony to the hard
work and resourcefulness that built
North Carolina and our country.
“Your own long journey”
Pick some place you’ve never been
and head out on a safari of your
own! Or visit Mattamuskeet!
nyghtvision magazine volume 2, number 2, summer 2012
