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Scenario: Dustbowl: Round 2, Red (Defense)

Sentry Placements:
[tpx]sadd3j: Sentry inside the shack, gun pointing down the stairs to cover ground entrance into the shack
[tpx]JasonC: Sentry inside the shack, gun pointing towards the first capture point
[tpx]teewee: Sentry inside the shack, underneath the first capture point, gun pointing opposite to sadd3j to cover ground entrance

Needless to say, the screenshot shows that the sentry placements were the winning combo.

second half of photos tomorrow..

My back is absolutely destroyed right now as I sit at work, but the trip was a blast. I went with 6 other guys and a girl on a overnight fishing trip to a highly secretive lake somewhere north of Barrie. There’s no road access to the lake, and we only saw one cottage on it, with a seaplane docked to it.

To get to this lake requires driving off road, up some ravine which is just a bunch of rocks (YFA will be familiar with the kind of driving I’m talking about), around these foot deep puddles, and then parking on a giant rock.

After parking, it’s about a 20 minute portage through a maze of forest and muddy paths until you get to the lake. Once in the lake its about a 90 minute paddle to the other side of the lake. After that, its a very short portage, a quick paddle across a marsh, another short portage, and then you’re finally in this apparent promised land of fishing.

Once we finally got there, I will admit, the fishing was pretty awesome. Definitely not often fished.. the only fish we could catch were bass, and the smallest was still about 11 inches. The regular size was about 13-14 inches with a few huge ones. We ate about ten of them for dinner and lunch the next day. I think I pulled in somewhere around 8-10 decent-sized fish, releasing most of them.

As the sun started to lower in the sky, we started scouting out for a campsite, we checked out this one spot with a kind of hill on it, which would have been nice for photos, but no flat area for pitching tents, so we moved on to the next “open” area and it served pretty well, but not much for the way of photos.

We ate for pretty much 3-4 hours, pork chops, side kicks, sausages, shrimp, the fish we had caught done up in some new replacement for fish crisp, did the regular camping stuff and then went to sleep as it started to rain. The next day was more eating, fishing and then the journey back.

Nothing too extraordinary, but awesome chance to get away and relax and catch up with a couple of friends.

Thought I’ll contribute to the blog revival.

Just got back from my SF trip over the weekend… It was a really really really good getaway – just needed to walk away from work and life for a little bit to rejuvenate (although sadly I had to do homework every night after getting back to the hotel). I guess the best part is seeing Bel and Brent after not seeing everyone for sooo long. There really is no substitute for this kind of friendship – we really just picked up where we last left off.

Cali is super pretty – beautiful place, beautiful people. No wonder all the photogs hang out there. I brought my SLR and maxed out all my cards (4G + 4G + 2G + my dinky 128MB). Which means way too many photos to edit (this is when I’m glad my keep ratio is not very high still, har har).

As Bel put it, typical of a YFA vacation (though I swear I did minimal planning for this trip – I was so busy leading up to the trip I booked hotel/rental car < 1 week before the trip, and I basically only had one e-mail of places to go from my SF friend) the trip is jammed back with stuff and you feel like you have spent an entire week there when you have in reality only spent a weekend there. Will go into detail about the different parts of the trip as I post photos later... but for now, here is the hommage I paid to Silicon Valley.... muhahahaha! (Belinda said I wanted to take this photo to spite others, but really I was pretty excited myself).

JasonC is a cutting edge Apple professional. Working his art, he is intensely lost in the moment. Oblivious to his surroundings, he becomes one with his camera. Equipped with his portable Canon Powershot, he’s ready to capture the moment. JasonC wouldn’t even think of attempting his fast-paced, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants urban photography without his trusty Apple gear.

Gear (Hardware)
Canon Powershot S2 IS
Apple laptop bag.
Some laptop.