THE CRITTER THAT KILLED MY CAMERA ….

A Flashback Friday post  –  back to last October.  

 

 

 

 

I heard a sort of small hissy noise one evening last Fall as I was walking down the road near the RV Park. We had just returned from our Alaska trip and I didn't think people-eating wildlife would be a problem at all now that we were back in the northwest.   But I wondered about that noise and of course I stopped and looked around.

 

 

 And then I saw this little crawfish almost right under my shoe.  (He was about four inches long — the photos make him seem much bigger, I know.)   The feisty little fellow was doing his level best to scare me away.  

I wondered where he came from since we had never seen crawfish around the Lake before.  I  kept taking pictures while thinking about how to get the poor thing across the road to the small runoff stream that was the nearest water. 

   

 

But he wasn't having any of my help — every time I would bend down  to get closer he'd wave that threatening claw.  It couldn't have killed me — but I hate pain — and of course had nothing with me except my camera.  

 

Then I decided to take a picture without the zoom lens — to show exactly how tiny this scary little creature was — and that was when I found that my zoom lens was stuck as far out as it could go. I think he threw sand at my camera.  Nothing I did could make it retract!  I forgot all about saving the crawfish and headed home.  

As it turned out, the person in our house who can do stuff couldn't get it to go back either, so we returned the camera (it was still under warranty).  I used an old one for the rest of the time we were in the northwest and while we were in Colorado.    It came back shortly after we got to Florida (we had it sent here) and is  working fine so far.  

 

Bill wondered where on earth I'd been when he looked at these pictures  (we couldn't look at them until we got the repaired camera back) — and for a few minutes I couldn't remember this little adventure either!  

I was just very glad that I did not meet up with this camera-eating critter while we were in Alaska — because I sure wouldn't have wanted to take pictures of those bears and bison without my long lens!

 

 

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