Tony, just got home, the tide finally came in and I was able to get to the dock, get Carol off the boat, button things up and drove home. At the top of the ridge above the Susquehanna River, just a few miles from the boat, is a beautiful farm called Mount Ararat Farm. It was just after sundown when we got there and the entire soybean field was covered with hundreds of whitetail deer. I stopped the car on the side of the road, and we just sat there and watched them for about 10 minutes, then continued the drive home.

Unfortunately, the light level was too low for me to get any kind of photo of this, but I can assure you I've never seen this concentration of deer since I left Spokane, Washington many years ago when a blizzard drove the mule deer out of the high country and down to Cusic Flatts, where there was still some food available for them to prevent starvation. It was an incredible sight.

And, when technology figures out a way to raise the tides, then I'll embrace that technology. I hope I'm around to see that happen. Until then, I guess I'll continue to relax, sit on the boat, sip a Margaretta and wait for the moon to do it's job and raise the tide the way it has since time began.

Gary