Occasionally, skies would clear long enough for us to charge our electronics (& air out our boots)...



Jimbo   

Did that canvas bag have fillets in it?

All I know for sure is your recent rainbow shot would would be an awesome catch.

pine_knot wrote on Aug 6^th, 2022 at 3:53pm:


PK,

I will neither confirm nor deny the rumors at this point.  Some of our group is STILL on the scene (believe it or not), possibly dealing with the aberration.  Upon their return, I may gain permission to release what, er, "evidence" I may or may not possess, AS WELL AS any additional pics, etc., they may have obtained since the evening of the original anomaly.

I'm not sure the world is ready for what might be revealed.  Stay tuned....

But, most of the time, the camp was zombie-free and looked more like this:



Jimbo   

HighnDry,

Stu from the BWJ, despite the fact that he has used nearly a dozen of mine over the years.  Interestingly enough, nearly half of those pics have ME in them, a feat requiring exceptional photography skills (or sloppy crediting; I prefer the former explanation, of course)!

Pics were taken on my Samsung Galaxy S21 which, as you know, went largely "unpowered" for several days due to technical "charging" problems.  Happily, those issues were resolved and I did manage to snap a few shots... including one "supernatural shot", taken that one spooky evening, after the big storm.  That was just pure luck, of course, having the phone/camera up & running when the anomaly occurred.

On a side note, since our return, I have been asked, "Jimbo, wasn't it a bit unusual for you to be doing a base-camp trip?  Don't you usually do much more ambitious treks?"  So far, my response has been, "Well, um, we DID move camp once, about a 1/2 mile away, across the bay."  Perhaps a more satisfying explanation can be found in the picture, shown below.  As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words... OR, aptly enough, in this case, a thousand pounds (not including canoes, pakboats & people... two of whom whose Chota portage boots had disintegrated by Day Two):



Later,
Jimbo   

A 1/2 mile across the bay (on the right in the distance, as seen in this view from our 1st camp) promised to be a better spot... and it was, by far.  It offered access/egress from BOTH sides of the peninsula and a decent place to bathe on the far side.  Breezes more easily filtered through the trees, keeping down the mosquitoes.



Jimbo