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dmcintyrelee said:
...it's great to see another waver rider here in the HI community! aloha brother!
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Ah! Santa Cruz! Aloha back at ya bro! Much better waves there! I used to surf more but since we dont get much for waves here I supplement my surfing with windsurfing. I do some flatwater speedsailing as well but waveriding is my favorite.
 
DMC, you send you film off to a lab? With those beautiful cameras I figured you were a fanatic and would process them yourself :D Is that a mamiya 645 I see or is it a hasselblad? I don't quite recognize it though the shape seems awful familiar. Haven't seen one of those in quite a while. Not since well before I sold my last pair of hasselblads and went to digital just a couple of years ago. (really late adopter, had to wait until the digital had better than large format film resolution and full cmos.)
Ndog, I think the pictures of the kids and the dogs are my absolute favorites, having a blast no fancy entertainment items needed. Looks like a great time enjoying the outdoors. I never camped as a kid, and then the military kind of ruined the basic idea for me. But being a PNW resident these days I never would have thought an old parachute would have been enough protection. I guess I am just used to the beach here being VERY cold and VERY wet all the time LoL. I would need a parka if I tried to stay on the ocean beaches here in that camp. We set up more like a high altitude camp in an ice zone on a mountain when we go to stay overnight on the beach up here LOL.
 
My name is Darren and it's great to converse with y'all!!

Shavru, I am definitely a fanatic! I am commercial photographer and designer by trade, do most of my work in the surfing and skateboarding industry here is Santa Cruz, working for NHS. I use digital for my work stuff but when I shoot for myself it;s always film still. I would process myself still but I hate dealing with chemicals, disposal, etc so I just send to a worthy lab in SF because most of what I do is either black and white or cross processing slide film. LOVE IT! My extremely awkward medium format camera is my Bronica SQ-AM (the poor man's Hassleblad). I would die to have a leica 35mm or a hassleblad. (sigh) -- (another sigh) I love film but hey I still listen to records too. In my opinion there's just nothing better then a film negative and I have been a photographer since well before photoshop! My mother lives up In Sequim.

Ndog, speed sailing sounds intense and I dig your base camp set up! Adventure calls..... cheers bro!
 
Shavru: The parachute is great but you must respect it in high or moderate winds. You must know how to make it safe. Ive spent years perfecting the rigup process. I tie it to my truck and there were a few times I thought it was going to flip my truck over. I used to use all the original lines and shroud intact but learned I must have it rigged so that they will break away in high winds versus flipping my truck over. Usually if its raining I pull the poles out and lay it flat and hang out in the truck till its over. Very rarely does it ever get dead enough for the chute not to deploy. On the last day of that vacation we had a storm blow through and I was about to untie it from the truck and lay it down but a gust of wind unexpectedly tore it loose as I had my knife in hand cutting the cordage. It broke loose as i was cutting and got wrapped around my backside and my calf and dragged me several hundred feet across the sand with my shorts half ripped off as i went feet first down the beach. Wasnt funny then but i laugh now. Really put my leg out of commission for a while. I had to let my wife drive home. Parachutes are well made and dont usually fail under high tension. And yes our dogs always come with us and grandkids too if we can get them away from mom and dad.

DMC: Love skatboarding also! Until three years ago i was still riding a G&S Fibreflex Bowlrider i got in the mid seventies. Old school style stuff Kickflips, nose wheelies, handstands, half pipes etc.but was fun.
 
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"My mother lives up In Sequim"

Sequim is a cool town, been there many many times. Sunny side of the straight as we refer to it. Haven't been there in a few years, use to go to a wildlife farm with the kids once in a while. Pretty cool.
 
Ha! I've been to that farm,, where exactly are you at Bawanna? My Mother is always trying to sell me on the sunny part of living in Sequim, even trying to claim it's the beach to lure me in! Lavender festival and killer Indian Res. fireworks are what keep me heading back,,, and ummm, my mother! We're locked here in Santa Cruz now, wife and two boys 17 and 13.... when we leave here it will be for heaven or an island somewhere, both in the same I guess!

Ndog, my skateboarding now consists of down the street wave checks and occasional early morning parks with my youngest. My wife and I surf regularly and are part of the Santa Cruz Longboard Union, she is actually surfing a contest in Malibu coming September!
I do work for Doug Haut and Michel Junod on a regular basis,,, love surfboards. I get the same vibe from all the HI blades as I do hand shaped surfboards, very similar levels of craftsmanship, function and beauty.
 
I'm in Monroe on the main land due east. Probably half way between the coast (Puget Sound, not the big water where I can see Russia) and Stevens Pass.

That game farm has a ton of history. Disney filmed several movies there and many commercials as well. Some of the props and lighting etc were left behind. Cheaper to leave it than haul it back.

Your mom is right, it's pretty nice over there, beautiful country. I suspect not much of a job market. It's the perfect place to make something and send it someplace else and have them send you money. Several business's over there are set up just that way. I used to know the fella that owned Olympic Synthetics. They make nylon slings and tow straps, that sort of thing and he said that's what he did. He could make those slings anywhere he wants and that's where he wanted to live so there he is.
 
Well boys and girls, it's that time of year again. I'm back off to the lake, tomorrow morning. I think they might even have decent internet service over there so I might be able to check in once in awhile.

I'll try to get some pictures if I can.

Be kind to one another without me here for yall to pick on. I'm sure you'll find another target easy enough.
 
Great vacation and pix, thank you for sharing
 
Head for home tomorrow morning. Fishing has been great. Lots of big bass, lots of trout but only a few big ones. I do not look forward to packing all this junk up. Too much work.
 
Ok before the lynch mob finds me and strings me up from the nearest Sycamore here's some of my vacation pics. I just spent an hour trying to get some out of my wife's IPAD things, an hour of my life wasted. I'll post what I got in the real camera and a few from the IPAD thingy if I missed any.

Here's the place I'd like to live, on the far north end of the lake with a huge shop. Needs a little modification to get to the lake easier for me but I could get r dun.



Good shot looking south from that same cove where the house is.


The Skipper too.


I may never be president but I'll always be good lookin!


A little shooting. Son left me his Pedersoli Sharps wannabe in 45/70. What a hoot!

Shot at the furthest target out yonder, a bit over a 100 yards.

A tad high, I was aiming center but pretty good for first two shots.

Got better once I figured out the set trigger a bit better, mighty sensitive thing it is.

Somewhere over the rainbow or at least the fish cleaning station.


Daughter caught a huge bass, biggest I ever laid eyes on in that lake. She was some proud.


The motley crew, I'm the cute feller in front with Spencer the Wonder Dog. When your a derelict, they always make you a center piece, I try to just blend in ya know?


Shaylins first boat ride..... she fell asleep.......


Watermelon Wednesday. Everybody in the lake eating watermelon and spitting the seeds on each other. Family tradition, draws a crowd of spectators from the normal people too.

Quick reload and back into battle.

Deep fried Friday. Main Course beer battered bass, nothing better in the whole wide world.


Something you didn't know about bawanna...... he collects trolls, this is about a 1/4 of my collection, ain't got any in several years, might have to renew the search.



Took wife and grandma (not my grandma but that's her title) out 3 days about mid morning. Limit of 5 each day in about an hour.


Maiden voyage for my Magnum Research 1911C. Great shooter, hits where it looks. Lord forgive me for having the goggles in the upward position, safety first and all that jazz.


Some good ones I gotta get out of that dadburn IPAD thingy, this technology stuff gives me the brain pain.
 
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Got a few out of the IPAD thingy, slow process.

The local parade, all in one frame. They asked grandma if she wanted a chair but she declined. By the time they would have got a chair it would have been past.


Local wildlife caught from the kayak on my wife's morning paddle. Didn't have a hacksaw to get me now handles.


All about kids this year, next generation. There was a bunch of new ones.


A little Shaylin love for her uncle, (my Marine, who was otherwise disposed)

Center of the log.


He was with us all the time, lots of shots of him.


And a big highlight of the week. Fella, friend of some friends showed up in this. A 1938 Chrysler Imperial. It's on a late model Ford Ranger Extended cab chassis. Super sweet. Disc brakes, air, cruise, tilt wheel, automatic, 4 WD. It was awesome. I wanted it sooooooooo badly. It's the guys everyday driver, put 80,000 plus miles on it since he built it. Drives it all over.
Hit a deer with it last year, just chipped the paint, probably would have tore the front end off a new car. I loved it.


And an historic moment in bawanna family history, shared here with my friends for the very first time.
Shaylins very first hands free unassisted stand! Working without a net. She's close to walking she is.
Also cut her first two teeth while at the lake, she wasn't the least bit happy about that.


Well, is this enough, anybody talking to me again now?
 
Great shots - looks like everyone had a wonderful time, and good fishing to boot. And you even were willing to *&#%$@ with an Ipad to get us the pics! You're back in our good graces fer shur!
 
Well color me relieved. Being in your good graces is impotent to me, and if I'm so impotent I best start dressing impotent.

Just completed a major modification on my Auntie knife rack, added a second wing as it were. Had to beg for my son's help to install but it seems to work fabulous. I'll get some shots with the real camera, forget that IPAD thingy and post em soon.

Made my day for sure. Now I basically got a whole new wall to fill up. Wife will not be happy, happy, happy!
 
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