SUBMARINE ROCK TRAIL
SUBMARINE ROCK TRAIL Hog Wash Trail Hikers of a certain age will remember the 1960s TV submarine series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea . Each week kids across the nation could vicariously board the Seaview with Admiral Nelson for a new nail-biting peril, a new monster and an old predictable plot as seen through the sub�s massive control room windows. Broken Arrow Trail For me, the wonder of it all lasted up until a class trip to a naval base in Groton, CT where I got to walk through the tin-can corridor of a real-life docked sub. We kids lurched single file past walls of gauges, dials and buttons in sync with a baseline of parental �don�t touch, stay back, keep quiet�. But, unlike on the Seaview , there were no windows-- which dashed my hopes of a beastly freak festival. For those of us who had toed the line, the tour culminated with a consolation prize: a trip to a local ice cream parlor. It wasn�t exactly the one-eyed squid from outer space finale I had hoped for, but the tour fuel...