Welcome RangerDad to the world of characters, or should I say black kettles!

Kawishiway
You nailed it.

RangerDad
I have made some very good friends and tripping partners as a result of Jimbo pink flamingo island festivities.
In a few short years your son is likely to be too busy with what ever life throws at him to go on canoe trips. Make the most of it.
MagicPaddler

My son is going to be `11 next month he's already in boyscouts! His first solo daytrip will be SAT. It will be exciting to see how he does in his own boat! I not losing the auto trim in my boat ( he's been sitting behind me for years ) I'm gaining a partner to share my love of the woods. My wif e will have to share her boat with him. Why do I have a feeling I'll have to buy 3 more solos? For all my girls! Rangerdad has been talking about this bushwackers jamboree ever since the article came out in the BWJ I forget how long ago that was. We worked together years ago and we kept in touch off and on. We stumbled across this site on the same week. What are the odds? I will go anywhere, anyplace, anytime. My gear is ALWAYS packed! I just need a little notice in2010. Where is Pink Flamingo Island?  

Fishpig wrote on Apr 17^th, 2009 at 4:07am:


Fishpig -

I may have answers to your two questions.

"HOW LONG AGO WAS THAT?"  Well, unfortunately, I don't have my BWJ's here at the office as I take my lunch break, but I'm wanting to say I wrote that story for the 2006 Spring issue.

"WHERE IS PINK FLAMINGO ISLAND?"  You see, some say it is like Brigadoon... it only appears every fifth year.  My guess, however, is that its right where I left it, due west of the mid-section of Cairn Lake.  That first flamingo-following crowd dubbed that auspicious event as "Jimboree" (a pure rip-off & alternative "happening" to Jamboree).  I think we've celebrated a Jimboree every year since.  You would not believe all the pink champagne glasses, balloons, fishing lures, feathers, signs, hats, shirts, fish buoys, lawn ornaments (of course), fish stew, & other highly unlikely pink paraphenalia that, subsequently, have been hauled into remote wilderness areas to celebrate this unusual event!  Ultimately, the location of Pink Flamingo Island seems to move around on an annual basis.  Were you to plot its actual geographic coordinates, you would discover it seems to exist wherever I happen to end up in a given year.

It seems I cannot avoid this island, so I have come to accept it as my summer-tripping fate.  For those wishing to experience it, Pink Flamingo Island will likely appear THIS YEAR somewhere in the wilds of Woodland Caribou Park.  NEXT YEAR?  Why, I expect it to appear in proximity to Bushwhackers Jamboree, of course!

Jimbo  

RangerDad wrote on Apr 17^th, 2009 at 6:00pm:


RangerDad,

Ah, yes, the most recent BWJ issue with the bushwhack story... let the full truth be known!

NOT ONLY did the two guys in THAT BWJ story steal MY idea (new eastern entry to the Q into McKenzie via those old logging roads), they assigned ME the role of watching/monitoring THEM while they did it!!  I was assigned the couch potato end of their SpotMessenger device and received messages via satellite to the internet showing me their daily geographic coordinates EACH day!  Talk about frustration!!  Honestly, those two clowns had me a bit worried at the end of Day One when I could clearly see they did NOT end up on McKenzie Lake, as planned.  However, their Spot Message to me that night did not indicate they required me to send in the cavalry for their rescue.  In the subsequent days, those lowlifes proceeded to camp (& send me messages with map coordinates) at EVERY fishing hole we had previously shared together, causing me great distress & much drooling over my missed opportunity!

By the way, I would be remiss if I failed to point out that those two scum bags are annual "Jimboree" participants.  In fact, you see that dude in the BWJ pic with the mosquito net on his head???  HE is a bonafide "charter member" of that original Pink Flamingo Island crowd. [And, incidently, he also can always be counted upon to carry an extra bottle of stool softener around should fellow paddlers every require such medication]

Alas, I suppose it is simply Fate that we scum bags - as well as birds of a feather - tend to flock together.....  

Jimbo