solotripper wrote on Aug 26
th, 2021 at 4:38pm:
Jimbo wrote on Aug 26
th, 2021 at 2:58pm:
IC's bird looks familiar!
Jimbo
That was the year I met IC and Ranger and Penny met us there. IC told me she would be easy to spot.
As I scanned ahead for her campsite, I saw the Pink Flamingo waving in the breeze. IC also had a brightly colored tarp she made over the firepit area.
I don't know if I sent this pic in for a POD, so if not here is the whole group. 2 Ladies, one handsome young man, and an old grizzled Lion.
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As you know, you can see those danged Pink Flamingoes from a mile away or so. This is precisely what drew the original Bushwhackers Jamboree flock together (of which IC was a founding member of the tribe/flock/whatever). My son had wondered what I was carrying in a VERY light old green army bag in the very back of our canoe. Upon our arrival at the our island campsite on Cairn Lake, I instructed him to open the bag and "deploy the birds". In short order, several parties spotted them, then joined us on our VERY fogbound, dreary, dripping island... and we had a blast!
About a month after my story about Bushwhackers Jamboree appeared in the Boundary Waters Journal, Piragis began to sell "pink flamingo campsite markers." Coincidence?? I think not. I had the chance to plead my case (ie. you dudes ripped off my idea!) to no avail to the folks manning the Piragis CanoeCopia booth the following year.
It was the infamous "Stumpy" (Bushwhackers Jamboree was HIS brainchild, only the flamingoes were mine) who contacted me to let me know about Piragis purloined product. He said, "Jimbo, those guys don't market ANYTHING unless it's a real money-maker for them." I believe that item stayed in their catalog for five years or more.
And, as Paul Harvey would say, "and now you know the rest of the story."
Jimbo
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