From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Birds, man. In my experience birds are the dbags of the animal kingdom.
ReplyDelete"Why are those boy ducks chasing that girl duck, papa?"
ReplyDelete"Ahhh...lets just keep walking, honey."
Hubster once caused some duck on duck crime when he fed only some of the ducks KFC biscuits at a park. Feathers flew, man. I'll have to find the photo I took over my shoulder of the duck who nearly assaulted me for one of the biscuits.
ReplyDeleteThe geese are the thugs in our neighborhood, but they're just protecting their mates and kids. Ducks man, they're like tiny pimps.
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