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Does anyone have the GPS coordinates for the pyramids, aka rock piles in Rock Lake near Lake Mills? Want to go exploring.
"Pyramids" in Rock Lake near Lake Mills, WI
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IIRC the History Channel show "America Unearthed" the host tried to find them but couldn't. But then it was a tv show and he was using a submersible submarine.......
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I saw that show, still want to explore. The water was so clear 2 days ago.
I have heard of these and do not know if these and similar reports/urban legend and the weird reports of giant skeletons being removed from some mounds is all hocus pocus. But, I do know that side scanning sonar is cheap and even my little boat is equipped with it and with a lake barely 80 feet deep it should not be too hard for a determined individual to locate these alleged features, skeletons aside.
So, when you find them please post the GPS and side scan renderings.
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So, when you find them please post the GPS and side scan renderings.
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I asked a friend who lives in Lake Mills about the pyramids, and he said that they're not particularly grand - just piled-up rocks. His impression was that on a bad viz day, you could miss them by a few feet and not know it. He's going to be doing some side-scanning later this month, and I've asked him to cough up coordinates if he finds them.
Digressing, Devil's Lake was spectacular today (nearly 20' of downward viz, less on a horizontal plane) and is worth a trip.
Digressing, Devil's Lake was spectacular today (nearly 20' of downward viz, less on a horizontal plane) and is worth a trip.
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Devil's Lake, as above, had it's own mythology. For those who do not know, it is an unexpected and seemingly out-of-place natural wonder right in the middle of America's Dairyland. It is a mecca for real-deal rock climbers, bouldering, chalk and rope- right alongside pasty Chicagoans panting as they ascend "the stairs" in flip flops and stopping to smoke cigarettes.
For years, and likely still the case, it was said that there was an underwater bootlegger's "cave". I always attributed this to the scattered heap of railroad ties near the railroad gravel embankment that was a collecting point for dropped bottles. Ahh, for the days of the Three Little Devils Dive Shop and IDC. Now there's some SCUBA history on the level of Cousteau, and I'm not joking.
Other mythical underwater critters: the "railroad engine" in Round Lake Illinois. There was indeed such a deposit, but it was better described as a "propulsion mule" for a narrow gauge transport for cut blocks of lake ice, back in the day. There in the silt, a chunk of metal (in the shape of... something) lay.
We once arrived at the Caribbean of Chicago, Racine Quarry, at o4
o to get a good spot. A ghostly glow played across the surface, causing much excitement. What was it? It was pre-History Channel, so we had no reason to think it was an U/W Alien Spaceship Base.
The first divers in found an assumably stolen Corvette from last night's local native festivities. It's headlights were still operational and pointed upward to the surface, I suppose to act as a landing beacon for those aforementioned aliens and their space ships.
Other local "dive sites" include a played-out sand quarry located at the Illinois-Wisconsin border. This is convenient because you can find on one side of the road: exploding chesee dildoes (reference to ubiquitous fireworks stands, tourist cheese, and porno shops of Wisconsin) and on the other? The National Breeding Ground for Corrupt Politicians (need I say, Illinois?). In this shallow pond, you shall not likely find a "Pearl" for which this lake was named, but a number of objects have succumbed to gravity and slipped beneath the waves, including a large diameter pipe which is identified as a 'submarine'. This is the home-base emanation point for all other known thermoclines. You dive down to 35fsw in July and might find a layer of ice. I seen it. This is how Pat Hammer (a minor SCUBA god and fellow Orca) got his name, he carries a 6# sledge.
Yes, you betcha', ya hey, I did DVR that goofy History Channel TV Show, the submarine that they dragged through the cat tails and into the pond, now that's some funny stuff right there. I think the same production crew got a two-fer, they also got an hour out of the Azetc/Mayan Heritage Site and Roadside Cheese Bunker just to the East in the town of Aztalan.
Here's the newspaper story tying both the pyramids and the Mayans together in one neat little package, Bring Your Own Tin Foil Hat... https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=GiIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6764,1936480&hl=en
Stop for the Mayan culture, buy some cheese curds. Have a Brat and a Beer. Then you FIBs? Yuse go back dere to Illinois.
We dive here in what we locally call (and apparently mis-nomer as) "the Midwest". We get excited over seeing... anything.
For years, and likely still the case, it was said that there was an underwater bootlegger's "cave". I always attributed this to the scattered heap of railroad ties near the railroad gravel embankment that was a collecting point for dropped bottles. Ahh, for the days of the Three Little Devils Dive Shop and IDC. Now there's some SCUBA history on the level of Cousteau, and I'm not joking.
Other mythical underwater critters: the "railroad engine" in Round Lake Illinois. There was indeed such a deposit, but it was better described as a "propulsion mule" for a narrow gauge transport for cut blocks of lake ice, back in the day. There in the silt, a chunk of metal (in the shape of... something) lay.
We once arrived at the Caribbean of Chicago, Racine Quarry, at o4
o to get a good spot. A ghostly glow played across the surface, causing much excitement. What was it? It was pre-History Channel, so we had no reason to think it was an U/W Alien Spaceship Base.The first divers in found an assumably stolen Corvette from last night's local native festivities. It's headlights were still operational and pointed upward to the surface, I suppose to act as a landing beacon for those aforementioned aliens and their space ships.
Other local "dive sites" include a played-out sand quarry located at the Illinois-Wisconsin border. This is convenient because you can find on one side of the road: exploding chesee dildoes (reference to ubiquitous fireworks stands, tourist cheese, and porno shops of Wisconsin) and on the other? The National Breeding Ground for Corrupt Politicians (need I say, Illinois?). In this shallow pond, you shall not likely find a "Pearl" for which this lake was named, but a number of objects have succumbed to gravity and slipped beneath the waves, including a large diameter pipe which is identified as a 'submarine'. This is the home-base emanation point for all other known thermoclines. You dive down to 35fsw in July and might find a layer of ice. I seen it. This is how Pat Hammer (a minor SCUBA god and fellow Orca) got his name, he carries a 6# sledge.
Yes, you betcha', ya hey, I did DVR that goofy History Channel TV Show, the submarine that they dragged through the cat tails and into the pond, now that's some funny stuff right there. I think the same production crew got a two-fer, they also got an hour out of the Azetc/Mayan Heritage Site and Roadside Cheese Bunker just to the East in the town of Aztalan.
Here's the newspaper story tying both the pyramids and the Mayans together in one neat little package, Bring Your Own Tin Foil Hat... https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=GiIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6764,1936480&hl=en
Stop for the Mayan culture, buy some cheese curds. Have a Brat and a Beer. Then you FIBs? Yuse go back dere to Illinois.
We dive here in what we locally call (and apparently mis-nomer as) "the Midwest". We get excited over seeing... anything.
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What did you wear? We did our OW off Eagle Heights in early June in 7mm and that was not very pretty. Is Devil's Lake colder than Mendota this time of the year?
Sorry! I didn't see this until now. I was comfortable in a 3.5mm, although it was chilly under the thermocline. Now that it's been a few weeks, I'd imagine that it's a little warmer.
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