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Subject:Re: Cougar and my westy. Friday.
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:55:48 -0500

Well, whether you did this or someone else did, it's a joke I've never encountered.  Odd.

The campsite looks pretty good to me.  If by desolate you mean it lacked the amenities of a developed campground, for me, so much the better.  Keeps those who don't know better away.  The lion certainly would be more likely to show up at such a place, and then you would have missed that.

---- Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> heh. A little fun with words but it was exactly that!
> The other part to this story is that the night before the cougar sighting,
> while the other Westy owner Gerald and I sat around discussing Vanagons and
> what not, I twice heard what I thought was a low growl. Gerald said he
> thought it was a rumble strip noise. I sounded more animal like to me and I
> still think it may have been the cougar.
> But then I can't see a cougar making noise if he/she was stalking prey.
>
> Originally, I'd thought to leave the camp site area. It was pretty desolate
> for lack of better word. And this, (image of tree and my Vanagon):
> http://tinyurl.com/pmt63k8
> also made me hesitant to stay.
> LOL.
>
> Neil.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>
> > Neil,
> >
> > I must admit, when I read the subject line, that was not the first image
> > that came to mind.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Neil n
>
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>
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>
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>
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David McNeely