I grew up a little over an hour from the Buffalo, and spent innumerable weekends on the Ponca-to-Pruitt run in all manner of weather. It's a treasure.
Matter of fact, the PDML as we know it can be tied to a trip I made to the Buffalo River with the girl who is now my wife. We spotted a Snowy Egret out there and silently floated our canoe as near as we could so I could take a photo with my little drugstore P&S camera. Getting the prints back and discovering that the wide angle lens of the camera meant a tiny Egret and a lot of environment led me to thinking I'd like to get a an SLR and longer lens. Not long after that I bought a Practica in a pawn shop. It came with 50mm, 28mm and 135mm lenses, and I began my photographic journey with that kit, adding a 20mm and a 200mm along the way before moving to a Minolta X370 and then to my first Pentax, a ZX-5. And here we are. Never saw an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, though. At least, none that I recall. Sandy Harris wrote: > There's a $10,000 reward for finding and photgraphing an > ivory-billed woodpecker: > > http://wikitravel.org/en/Buffalo_National_River#Bird_watching > http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0926-woodpecker.html > > Probably not easy; they're nearly extinct and live in swamps. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
