G'day all,
What seems like ages ago now I took my boat out on a fine day with my 11 year old daughter as deckie for the day and targeted Mud Island. Left very early in the morning to arrive at sun up and without any time wasting the lines were in. The bites were there but nothing too big until suddenly the daughter's rod buckles over and drag peels off pretty fast. With a bit of coaching I got her into the pumping and winding action and before too long I watch her land her personal best fish ever being a 43cm cod. She was stoked and I grabbed the camera to capture the moment. After a few snap shots I continued fishing landing 3 keeper squire to add to the collection. At home I washed the boat as usual and packed all the gear away and once inside thought about loading the photos onto the computer which is where things went wrong. For the life of me I could not recall where the camera was. The last time I remembered seeing it was when I took the photos of my daughter's proud moment. I then started the panic routine and literally tore the car and boat apart to try and find it but to no avail. It was gone for good I thought along with the precious photos which was my main reason for being upset. After accepting the loss eventually of my quite expensive compact camera I have moved on and been looking at a new camera but yet to find one with the same features for an affordable price because it seems the new models do not have the same weatherproof features mine had for the same dollar value. Just this morning I was looking out the front thinking the weather was crap and miffed about the fact I am home when I would love to be out in the boat and then I noticed something shiny under a shrub in the front garden. On closer look it turned out to be my long lost camera and what's amazing is that apart from being dirty and wet it is still perfect and had enough charge still to view the photos so here they are. Hope you enjoy them.
Regards,
Poodroo
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Originally Posted by snagking
