The Casio point-n-shoot camera that I use when kayaking seems to have kicked the bucket. Although I'm hoping that it's comatose rather than dead, I'm assuming it's the latter. I have yet to perform the examination\autopsy that will make the final determination.
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| New and old bay bridges, and a kayak |
I took the kayak and the Casio to Crissy Field in San Francisco for the Blue Angel's practice show (for Fleet Week 2011). The Casio was a bit blurry-eyed, but responsive, on the way there, and took the usual photos of the bay bridge(s).
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| The Snowbirds demonstration team |
Once on the water, the Casio began to show signs of disorientation, and increasingly blurred vision.
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| St. Francis Yacht Club |
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| The wave organ |
The Casio seemed to rally at the Wave Organ jetty, taking several blurry-but-almost-adequate pictures.
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| The Lemming Club's annual event |
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| The last communication from the QV-R51 |
This photo of the
USAF F-15 Strike Eagle (the gray spot in the sky) was the last image from the Casio QV-R51. It's long and largely successful career ended to the sound of waves against the sides of the kayak, and of the
F-15 blasting gently overhead, on the peaceful waters of the San Francisco Bay, free from it's waterproof plastic bag, looking wistfully at the clear blue sky, and perhaps thinking of its far-away homeland.
That's assuming it's dead, of course.
