cool as a florida cat...

I took this from some video I shot a couple of weeks ago while I was in the Everglades with a great group of college students from Gettysburg College in Pa. It is a Florida Panther..one of only 87 left. They grow to the 80 pound range and this one looked big and healthy. As I watched this big cat I flashed forward to the upcoming Baffin to Ellesmere trip and all the opportunity to see rare and interesting varmits like this one.
It has been a very busy time with conference calls sorting out gear ,kayaks, logistics.tons of e-mails with lists that grow one day and shrink the next. What to bring, testing sleeping bags and tents, do we each want a tent, do we all want to sleep in one tent do we want two tents.
Thats how it goes and all of this while we all work for a living, and have our relationships and play gigs and help our parents put up garage door openers and...well you get the idea. But I feel like we are finally getting some of the big things moving forward.
OK so first it was my brothers idea of getting helium filled balloons and theathering the kayaks to them and walking the kayaks across Devon Island.(We're not doing that.) Now I'm thinking that using kites, like a kite surfer uses might be a good way to get across the big open water up there.
Well looks like its time for supper, more later.
Russell.