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This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 is at this link.
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The big truck at right above contains the pump equipment that will suction the berries out of the bog.
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The workers keep the berries flowing into the inlet pipe (the big green one) where they are suctioned up onto the truck........
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......rinsed of debris......
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....and loaded right into a huge tractor-trailer bed for transport to a central processing location.
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That's a lot of berries. And this one bog will fill three truck beds. Not that it matters but, it was raining like crazy on this day- regardless, the harvest goes on.
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You may think that the owner's pet, Wiley the Wonderdog, is patrolling and protecting the cranberries - you would be wrong - he is trolling for frogs or other critters along the edge whose habitat has been disrupted by flooding the bog. There are enough of them to put a spring in his step and motivate him to drag his aging body alongside the bog demonstrating the excitement and anticipation of a puppy.
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If Wiley could speak, he'd likely say, "I'm a gonna' catch me some critters today."
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