To all of you that we accompanied on the San Juan/Gulf Islands trip: I just received (couple of days ago) the dvd with all the group photos. Big thanks to Randy who went to all the trouble to compile it and send them out! Wow! Well over 2000 pictures from the 14 days we spent together. Some of you guys should be pro photographers. So...I sat down and started going through them. I thought I'd go through and pull every picture that had anything to do with Jo and I, Bosun or Dauntless. It took a couple of hours. When I got done, as you can imagine I had a ton of shots, like a couple hundred. I was so excited to put them all together in a slide-show, which I did. After another couple of hours I finally got to play my "Dauntless specific" slide-show. How cool is that!? Well, I'll tell you........shortly after starting the slide show I had this "empty" feeling...something wasn't right...something was missing. Back into the dvd I dove...spending another couple hours fixing the problem. What was the problem? you ask.......you guys weren't in my "Dauntless specific" show!! I went back through the dvd flagging all the cool shots of the rest of you guys....I put them in with the shots of Dauntless I flagged and.... WALA!!! That was it!!! I had to cut the slide-show down to just my "favorites". It's now a mere 413 pictures!!! hahaha At 2.5 seconds per shot it STILL takes about 16 minutes to watch them all. In the background I put some music that I like and I have to tell you that it almost chokes me up to watch it. To realize that Jo and I are fortunate enough to be able to make a trip like that, and to think about the caliber of friends we've made................well, it's just awesome. I hope you guys find the same enjoyment when you go through the literally thousands of pictures and videos. And as for you...Larry................. Well, I forgive you for the video about the Polluting the Puget Sound! hahaha (but it took me a while!) hahaha. Seriously, though, .....Thank You Buddy. You are a true gentleman, a great friend, and you've given so many of us such a great gift by all your efforts to bring us together. That truly was a "trip of a lifetime". I gotta go now. I haven't watched the slide-show for about an hour and I need to go refresh my memory on what a great trip it was again!.....and again....and again........ :-) What was that about 2011???? :-) Sean M23 "Dauntless"