An Old Farts Outdoor Thread

[steffo99]

Walked a new trail at sunrise – starting at Råda Säteri, a mansion type building from 1770. The place has had activity since the 14th century at least. But stone age findings are not far away, so ofc ppl have been here since forever.






First attempt and a handheld pano – 5pics.

[steffo99]

[Mark1T]

steffolio, awesome shots. Lots of history and beautiful scenery. Amazing the architecture hundreds of years ago.

Lots of rain and water here for the past 2 weeks.

[mtpockets]

Great shots Steffo, loving them. Mark still dealing with the rain.. That's a lot of water. Some crazy winds in some parts too I hear.



Spent most of the week on the houseboat. A few years ago I took a couple of members of the media in the bush to do a story on winter camping, later on I took them in for a week long canoe trip. Since then we have become good friends, they were total green horns to the outdoors and now go canoeing, fishing, camping, snowshoeing etc.. with their families and friends.

Occasionally, they will text me to see what's going on which usually ends up in us getting together and they make the long drive to spend a few days. That’s what happened this week, they only came up for a couple of days but kept extending their stay, The hiking, fishing and kayaking has been great. Amazing weather.

It was fun but looking forward to a visit free summer doing the free spirit thing without any commitments. We kept this summer open for that specific reason.


My buddy dropped by and stayed for a night and I got to try his new kayak. What a rig.

It's like the one in the video below. Old Town Sportsman BigWater ePDL+™ 132



Way too much of a Kayak for me but damn that thing is fun and it has pedal power and e powered so you know that sh!t intrigues me.

Ok enough goofing around, I got to do the rest of the unpacking (the not so fun part)

Keep smilin fukkers...

[Mark1T]

MT, your houseboat sounds amazing. Especially up where you are. That is a super kayak. About $6000, but very nice and cool propulsion system. I'm going with the Pelican

Took this today. Two young Black Bellied Whistling Ducks. They got very close to me and they didn't flinch. 30 feet. Their first human and since I moved slowly, they knew they were safe. They are gorgeous and orange.



Little Raccoon curious about my trail cam. Animals including deer can hear it snap pics, but humans cannot.

[mtpockets]

Mark those ducks look big, great shot, I have never saw one of those. That coon is keeping an eye on you LOL


Lazy Sunday here, sitting on the dock having a coffee, with a line in the water listening to the world wake up. Peaceful, even the fish aren't bothering me ha ha...

Have a great day all

[mtpockets]

Another beauty morning in my neck of the woods. Almost a shame to put the kayak in and make ripples, but I'm gonna.

You fukkers have an awesome day it's time for me to wet some paddles and dunk some lures.

Keep smilin

[Mark1T]

MT, amazing shots and the water is so pristine.

The water was so high early last week I had at least 20, 10+ pound Grass Carp swimming in my front yard trying to get away from the current. Water level is way down finally and to be truthful, I would rather have rain than a drought. Last 2 years in a row we had droughts and heat waves. La Nino stuck around that long.

Yes, those ducks are big and those are very young. Full grown Black Bellied Whistling Ducks are probably about 1.5X bigger than Mallards.

[steffo99]

Very nice, Pockets. I must have asked before, but will ask you guys again at times as see the pics and I keep forgetting, but what part of the country is that?

[OldFartTom]

Beautiful pics Mr Pockets, those lakes are like blue glass they're so smooth, and clear water too. When you're out on the water how deep can you still see the bottom, that looks some good visibility