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To: Clappy who wrote (43820)	5/31/2005 5:38:11 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 104159

Happy Camper~ It's amazing what four days in the mountains can do for a person. Oh yeah.. most definitely! (o: Sounds like things were well thought out and arranged and that everyone had a wonderful time... that is good! Raccoons can be very wild little dudes. They can also make quite a range of sounds, some of which are rather horrible. One of their sounds mimics screaming humans... a really horrible sound. A couple of years ago, one started doing that outside the back of my neighbour's house. She slept right through it as her house is well-insulated and the windows were all closed. However, the young couple living across the road from her place were hearing the screaming loud and clear. They were too scared to go over to find out what was screaming behind my neighbour's house, so they called the police. The police came and soon discovered that it was a raccoon sitting on the back porch. They rang the doorbell on the house until my friend finally woke up and came downstairs to find police standing at the door at 2 a.m. They said, "Couldn't you hear all of this screaming?!!!" And she said, "Nope -- too tired after doing a 12 hour nursing shift." (actually, maybe she's just so accustomed to hearing screaming that it didn't register!! never thought of that possibility before...lol). I suppose what was most amazing was this place was just as far away as my commute to work. I've been heading in the wrong direction all this time... That's what is surprising about many places. Some of the nicest places aren't that far away. That's why it's also important for people to try to protect these special places so that they will be there for everyone to enjoy well into the future. ~croc

To: Clappy who wrote (43820)	6/2/2005 4:13:38 AM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 104159

happy- loved yer camping story. thanks! here's mine. (as told to the sailing mates who were scared away from the lake by sensationalist news stories of rising waters from an abundant spring run-off.) ******************** here's some news (with lots of links to pictures) from the memorial day weekend. the corps of engineers and the local news channels were pretty successful in keeping the crowds away. BIGGEST FLOOD IN 15 YEARS! -- HAZARDOUS TO BOATING! -- BEACHES CLOSED! -- RISKY BUSINESS! -- GO ANYWHERE BUT HERE! thank you, thank you FEAR MONGERS! you just made my weekend! the lake was almost deserted... except of course, for those whose lives are not guided by army kids, commercial journalists and TV reporters inventing stories to create shock and awe. several boatloads (11) of BOCers and RGSCers came to enjoy the fabulous new lake(s) and close to 100 miles of new shoreline created by the long lost WATERS of decades past. otters, beavers, raptors, seagulls, coyotes, deer, ducks, geese, trout, bass, pike, frogs, and even a few pelicans obviously ignored the wet water warnings as well. this diversion tactic by the corps DID help keep the media from exploring the obvious stories about the great wisdom of these military engineers in constructing brand new permanent structures UNDER WATER using THOUSANDS of taxpayer dollars: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net the new floating BOC party barge is, however, a welcome addition to the east side... a great place to stop by for happy hour and a little dancing: mywebpages.comcast.net saturday morning, the handy, dandy yardstick on the tower showed the lake level 14 feet higher than the previous weekend and 20 feet above the last 10 year's maintenance levels: mywebpages.comcast.net toni cove... mywebpages.comcast.net is now toni "island" and can be easily circumnavigated by ships with 10 feet or more draft: mywebpages.comcast.net (tom, kath and i planted a fugly phish flag claiming the new world in the name of the BOC) we cruised up the santa fe river-cut to the emerging new lake. kath had never seen this view of tetilla peak: mywebpages.comcast.net it was a bit shallow for sailing yet: mywebpages.comcast.net so we decided to sail the african queen back down the santa fe to return another day when we had three more feet of water: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net by sunday all the racers began converging for the annual BOC memorial day extravaganza. the opportunity to cruise up the rio grande to bandalier was so overwhelming to us that we postponed the race and headed toward española where it is still legal to drink beer in glass bottles: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net we felt we were heading where no explorers had gone before until we spotted this pirate ship sailing around the bend toward us: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net we had him out manned and outgunned so he passed without incident. i think his crew had pirated a cask of rum and booty from a galleon upriver and were already enjoying the spoils because they just sat and stared sort of spacey-like from bloodshot eyes as they floated by us: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net meanwhile the twins on the sinky boat kept a sharp eye out for sandbars just in case they needed a shallow place to sink. (forget it! the channel was over 20 ft. deep for miles): mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net lordy, what a gorgeous, unspoiled place to explore: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net about 8 miles up the river, well out of range of modern civilization, we began to encounter wounded survivors from the pillaged galleon that the pirate crew had set on fire earlier: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net just in case they had any fight left in them, young first mate natalie fired a couple of warning shots across their bows: mywebpages.comcast.net the trip back to the lake was much faster than the trip up for most of us but mcphee's 40 year old evinrude decided to rest for awhile and harrington towed him back the last mile as a breathtaking lightning show helped illuminate their course to homeport: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net they arrived just in time for the evening feast and festival where the pirate's booty was grandly admired, heisted from the drunken varmint, and divided up among the more worthy: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net monday morning's dawn brought a special gift for the crew of the african queen who was longing to explore the new bayou: mywebpages.comcast.net THREE MORE FEET OF WATER! PERFECT! we quickly headed again for the santa fe! ...only to encounter a traffic jam in the canal: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net before finally arriving at the NEW LAKE: mywebpages.comcast.net mywebpages.comcast.net ...where we discovered natives relaxing under the cottonwoods eating prunes: mywebpages.comcast.net we were soon joined (or rammed) by the wayward pirate boat "got rum?" they asked us if we had any rum. we did, but we said we didn't. the postponed sunday race then began... it was a run, broad reach and finally a close haul all in a straight line for four or five miles clear across the new lake, down the santa fe river, and across the old lake (much bigger now) to the closed cochiti marina. the lead changed at least three times with the pirate boat finally eeking out a one or two boat-length win at the finish line. what a BLAST! i can't wait to get back up for more exploring before the water level starts coming back down. there is at least 10-15 miles of navigable water up there now with most of it in very remote and beautiful backcountry. the caribbean and the sea of cortez is no match for what we have here right now. i'll be heading back up friday afternoon. -the dust of blue frog