Have you ever had a secret wam location set up, perhaps outdoors in a secluded space?
We had an awesome area, accesible by kayak and with a hidden entrance, hidden kayak parking, and a large inflatable pool of mud, not to mention a long trail through the bullrushes leading to a huge expanse of seasonal mud.
I had planned it well, as those in canoes or kayaks paddled past our entrance and never discovered the spot. It just looked like a place where wildlife went ashore. Only one thing I hadn't counted on . . . Google satellite view!
Here is a photo from the mud pool, and another showing some of the features, and finally our location revealed on Google earth. Damn! You can clearly see the path from the mud pool across to the other body of seasonal mud.
Busted!
Has anyone else set up an outdoor messy play area, or other secret location? Just curious as to how you keep it a secret.
I think your safe, no one will find that unless they are into wam and even then theyd struggle I think.
2nd question, Im currently losing a lot of the dares on the game thread and I need a place to complete them as there is too much mess for my bathroom, anyone got any secret or other locations I can use?
Figure that whatever hidden site you find....you will have about 3-4 years of fun before Google Earth will reveal it.....because I have lived at my current house for 4 years, and even today Google Earth and Streetview only display a photo of what the house and street looked liked 5 years ago, under the previous owner. The satellite pics of my house still show 4 trees in the front that I had to have removed 3 years ago because of disease.
You can get some tips from watching those reality shows about Moonshiners.....who have to build their stills in the woods every year, and then tear them down each season before the Feds find them.
In the 1990's I built my mud pit on my 5 acre property in Jupiter Florida.....and it was great for mud shoots and pie shoots because nothing could be seen from the road and I had empty lots on both sides of my house. Nobody could see anything and there was no Google Earth in those days.....but the we did get "outed" a couple of times by local Sheriff's helicopters who flew by and then hovered over my property when they saw naked models in my garden. One time I heard a chopper coming as we were in the middle of a wam shoot.....so I quickly handed towels to all the girls and told them to duck inside my awning for cover as a helicopter was approaching. Of course the girls decided to be mischievous and dropped their towels and went outside to wave at the helicopter.....which hovered for 15 minutes with our naked girls waving at them. Then the chopper flew off and I thought we had got rid of them....but no....the pilot had radioed to his other buddy and then they came back with TWO helicopters hovering over my shoot with our girls waving at them.
The girls thought this was hilarious,,,,but I was not amused....because the noise was ruining our shoot and we were unable to do complete our scene because of the noise.
wamtec said: Figure that whatever hidden site you find....you will have about 3-4 years of fun before Google Earth will reveal it.....because I have lived at my current house for 4 years, and even today Google Earth and Streetview only display a photo of what the house and street looked liked 5 years ago, under the previous owner. The satellite pics of my house still show 4 trees in the front that I had to have removed 3 years ago because of disease.
You can get some tips from watching those reality shows about Moonshiners.....who have to build their stills in the woods every year, and then tear them down each season before the Feds find them.
In the 1990's I built my mud pit on my 5 acre property in Jupiter Florida.....and it was great for mud shoots and pie shoots because nothing could be seen from the road and I had empty lots on both sides of my house. Nobody could see anything and there was no Google Earth in those days.....but the we did get "outed" a couple of times by local Sheriff's helicopters who flew by and then hovered over my property when they saw naked models in my garden. One time I heard a chopper coming as we were in the middle of a wam shoot.....so I quickly handed towels to all the girls and told them to duck inside my awning for cover as a helicopter was approaching. Of course the girls decided to be mischievous and dropped their towels and went outside to wave at the helicopter.....which hovered for 15 minutes with our naked girls waving at them. Then the chopper flew off and I thought we had got rid of them....but no....the pilot had radioed to his other buddy and then they came back with TWO helicopters hovering over my shoot with our girls waving at them.
The girls thought this was hilarious,,,,but I was not amused....because the noise was ruining our shoot and we were unable to do complete our scene because of the noise.
Anyway...get a portable camouflage canopy....
That's a great story but I could see why you were pissed.
Yes, outdoor shoots run risks such as helicopters, but more commonly today, drones. It wouldn't be too difficult for someone in a canoe to send a drone over the mud pool, especially if they had used Google maps to find a place to canoe in, and located the strange markings of my setup. It's been several years since I went out there, and I imagine the pool will be nothing but shreds of plastic by now. We get sub-zero temperatures here in winter and hot summers, so plastic doesn't seem to last long in the great outdoors. I can just imagine having great mud sex in the pool interrupted by a drone from a bunch of people in canoes having a Sunday afternoon church outing. Double buzzkill. (first would be me, second would be me throwing a rock at the drone) No more buzz.
mago said: Why in the pool and not directly in the mud?
For 11 months of the year, the mud is at the bottom of a shallow lake. By using the pool, we can get the mud out by pails and into the pool, giving us four months of fun instead of just one.
mago said: The location is nice - is it in the states?
No, in Canada, not too far from the St. Lawrence River.
My regular spot generally fits that bill. I keep it in good order, but one summer made the mistake of machete-ing too much brush, which led to two close calls.