That’s the problem with being the photographer - you have lots of pics of other people and not many of yourself. Here’s a nice pic of Holly, taken at the McKeldon area of Patapsco State Park in MD.
SteelyEyes: While I’m not into that whole hunting thing, I’ve known a number of guys who really dug it. I just don’t think I could kill something that large that was capable of such an empathetic look in it’s eye. Squirrels, birds, fish, snakes and the like I’ve trapped, cleaned, spitted and cooked but I doubt I could do a deer or elk. I miss doing that stuff actually. While in high school, my brother and I would hike back into the Olympic forest and spend 7-10 days living off the land. We’d take a tarp, twine, couple of hatchets/bowie knives and matches and call it good. The streams were great for making fish traps in the shallows and there were more squirrels and birds than a person could eat, not to mention berries and roots. We had a plan to do it in winter too, but never had enough snow for that.
jbreak: Very cool pics. I’d like to try that on a river one day. Last time I kayaked was 22 miles off the coast of California, around Catalina Island.
Bronco: Damn! That’s impressive.
The cool thing about this thread is that I look at all the pics and get this adrenaline rush of “Damn! That looks cool! I wanna do it!”
… we’ve done that before, too. Here I am, ready to to go for a ride in the middle of the night. It was at a 24 hour race at Seven Springs ski resort in PA (the pic of me by the pond is also form there.) It’s basically a relay race. A person does a lap, then the next person goes. We had 5 people on our team. Most laps wins the race!
I had that light on my helmut, a light on my handlebars and a glostick on my seatpost. It was interesting riding at night, except for when my one light when out … and later the other one dimmed to almost out. I barely completed my lap and made it back to our room via glostick light!
~karma~, any person, male or female that would go into the Olympics and do what you did has my respect. I’ve done my share of hiking and hunting around there and it’s awesome, but rugged country.
~k~ – I’ve been a hunter for years, basically one of the few things I do with my dad every year. A few years ago, my dad got his elk, but we were still a day out from completing the trip. So, he walked with me. At one point, there was a cow and calf ambling along a ridge fully in view (we had cow tags). I glassed in and took aim, but never pulled the trigger. Thing is, killing the cow would have killed the calf as well. And I couldn’t stomach killing the calf. Even though my dad was encouraging me to take the shot. I just let them go over the ridge.
Yeah, there are times when I could have taken an animal but didn’t for various reasons. Call it my softer side, but I voew the hunt as “the fun’s over when you pull the trigger.” I’d be just as happy hunting with a camera as a gun (and probably will do just that after my dad finds getting around the woods too difficult).
jbreak… Nice …very nice…Now that’s what I’m talking about. Peeps doin stuff .
Bronco… Massive BALLS !!
enuf said.
anti… Ok, as for your question on the tower an or pole. Yes, it will help HUGE because you’re gonna fly when you hit the wake. But hell, if you have never done it… Get out an do it, you’ll love it. As for your rope being just off the back… no biggie, you need to learn your board an the edges before you get a tower anyway. When you’re ready to get a tower you can pick one up for around a grand. The tower on the boat is at 7’. We drop in two bags at 350lbs a piece… We put down about a good 1.5 to 2 foot wake.
Now THAT’S extreme…
Bohdi what’s extreme about being lucky enough to have a dolphin so close to you when surfing? 
Bohdi, by the way, that is a Dolphin. I’d still shit myself if that was me on the board though.
My hobby.
Bodhi – I’m thinking that’s a Photoshop job. Placement of the “large sea animal” in the wave just seems wrong to me (as in it wouldn’t happen in real life).
And to those who said it’s a dolphin – I’m no biologist, and certainly no Ceausteau, but that’s one BIG A$$ dolphin. I’m not all that convinced it’s not a shark. Sure, the detail on the tail makes it appear that it’s horizontal (as in a dophin’s tail), but the size of it (relative to the surfer) seems way out of proportion.
Here’s what snopes had to say about it.
I stand duly spanked. That’s still one big-a$$ dolphin.
…or a small surfer 
Shit guys… Dolphin vs. Shark? WFT? I just thought it was pretty extreme to be that close to nature. If you believe it’s a dolphin (like that snopes site) then that’s a hell of a cool thing to be so close to it doin what it’s doin - catching the wave. And if you believe it’s a shark - well, enuf said. Either way, pretty damn cool.
Please, make this thread die. For the past 2 weeks I’ve had to read that migraine inducing title followed by the picture of the sandal climber grinning like an idiot. What the hell could you people possibly be talking about…shit!
I’ll try to find more pics to post, just for The Fragile!
It looks like a dolphin to me by looking at the trailing edge of the dorsal fin. Either dolphin or shark is plenty possible though. I’ve seen sharks in waves like that in Florida (both waves and sharks were smaller).
I’d put up more pics but they’re all on my home computer. Except maybe one. It’s just the view from my front yard one winter day.
that is the sweetest great white pic ever