Hey Scarp,

Why don't we try to come up with a fund raiser in which you could buy a used 
electric golf cart that you could park at the admin building for the trips 
in which the weather is insane. It might not get you everywhere you want to 
go on the island but it'll cut down on the treks from hell. I know someone 
that is stationed out there and I could ask him for the logistics and 
feasibility on their end. Someones going to get airlifted off that pile of 
rocks one of these summers or worse.

Ed Boyd
Westminster, MD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul O'Brien" <>
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Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 8:06 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Hart-Miller


OK, let's try this.

PJOB

 In a message dated 7/18/05 7:22:47 PM,  writes:



> I know that friends and family have often thought that I was a bit
> unbalanced to visit Hart-Miller Island year-round for 10 hours almost 
> every
> Saturday. This past Saturday, I began to question my own sanity.
>
>
>

Gene,

You are a genuine hero! I have been expecting this epiphany year after year
after year and it finally came. In case nobody has mentioned it, the data 
set
you have accumulated is invaluable. It is in the same category as Claudia
Wilds' Chincoteague surveys, maybe better. But I would rather there be an
occasional break in the data than to have it stop altogether. Please let 
less
insane friends talk you into skipping the more dangerous surveys so you live 
to
complete the less dangerous ones. I know what it can be like out there, both 
in
summer heat and in winter ice storms, and I can tell you that I don't expect
to test my endurance on Hart-Miller at my age in any but ideal conditions.
Well, if you turned up a state bird...

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Paul O'Brien
Rockville, Mont. Co., MD