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...
Britain has so few flashy dinosaurs. Truly, theirs are the basic bitches of the Dinosauria.
ReplyDeleteOkay, Scelidosaurus and Baryonyx are pretty interesting.
Also, Dracoraptor has to be one of the most generic 21st century generic names I've ever seen. "Dragon-bird of prey." It's like a name you come up with when you're twelve and hold onto until you finally get to name something, and can't admit that it's kind of lame now.
ReplyDeleteThey get the cool sea reptiles. Mostly i'm amused by Chris Pratt.
ReplyDeleteThat silhouette should be wary. The dinosaur looks like a crotch-nipper.
ReplyDeleteAs a Texan, I am proud of and have been able to enjoy our prehistoric heritage - hell, 90% of the buildings at my college had fossil impressions since most of the state is ancient sea-bottom limestone.
ReplyDelete(We also have Queztalcoatlus and Mosasaurs, which are pretty badass, and I have personally touched the footprints of our state dinosaur Paluxysaurus).