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That isn’t me as I don’t do FB. Still fairly certain Dana passes years ago.

You also want to stay in the optical zoom range as the digital range sacrifices quality. Wife uses Canon SX 60 which has been replaced by the SX70 I think. Light enough to hold steady even zoomed out. I think Nikon Cool Pix 900 series is very good too.

Check out a “bridge” camera. Some very long telephoto lenses in a compact easy to use form. https://www.audubon.org/magazine/birders-consider-bridge-camera Wife gets great results

Pretty sure it’s a snail kite. While the males are dark gray all over, females and juveniles are “streaky brown” according to the Merlin app from Cornell. If you enjoy watching birds and you don’t have this app, put it on your phone. It is amazing. You can identify birds by photo and even by...

To a dog you’re the master…to a cat you’re staff.

I must say that even before this remarkable acquisition you have quite the enviable fleet! Thanks for rescuing this piece of history.

Beautiful Marc! Thanks for the great thread.

Nice Tripper! Loved mine when I was young and could lift it 😄

Yes, I know Charlie and knew Dana a bit. Remember him while he was at Sawyer filming me paddling a Sawyer doing some FS moves for ads but never saw anything from it. They used to travel together a lot and stopped at my house sometimes.

Unfortunately if I remember correctly Dana Grover passed away several years ago. Hope I am not correct but think I am.

Really interesting post Marc. Thank heavens there are such talented and committed individuals as you in our paddling community. Hard to imagine what our sport/hobby/passion would be like if all our tools were mass produced by impersonal corporations.

Wow, the name Early Winters brought back memories. I have used candle lanterns hanging in a Jansport dome many moons ago. If I remember right, it could hold a tea light which has very little burn time but has the advantage of being in a metal cup which I assumed added a layer of safety.After a...

Believe it or not, young people fall for digital scams more often than the elderly. There is data to support that.

A current problem with AI engines is that companies have run out of data to input and wind up occasionally using data outputed by AI as new input, the errors contained therein are further corrupting the database and continuing to give incorrect answers. Hard to imagine they have input everything...

Change is the only constant