A Brief Introduction

In my random travels, I often carry a 6" plastic action figure and take pictures of him. Bongo, as I call him, is a gorrilla with a green backpack and a spring-propelled grapnel launched from his left wrist. He is one of the Rescue Heroes made by Fischer Price. The name on the box said Swinger, but I call him Bongo nonetheless.

Perhaps his full name is Bongo Swinger.

Swinger is not featured on the Fischer Price Rescue Heroes website.
Perhaps he has been discontinued.

In any case, he is durable, pose able, portable and much more reliable than the lawn gnome of urban legend. Unlike the lawn gnome, he is not stolen or borrowed. I purchased him, many years ago, for my son, who has outgrown such toys. So now I play with him.

I post the pictures here, along with whatever background information I feel appropriate.

This is the second version of this blog. The original was based on an e-mail that no longer exists, and I can no longer edit it.

I have linked to it here - and on the link list

Sunday, November 4, 2007

More from Moqui group camp


A bit of old business to get out of the way.
Bongo found a calculator.
He displayed it for us at Knoll Lake campground up on the Mogollon Rim.
This is just after the General Crook trail hike, at the campground, with the "adults".

Later we found the calculator's owner. Turns out he works with us...




Knoll Lake looking roughly east from the dam.











And...

Looking north over the dam down the itty-bitty stream below.

The campground is a good quarter mile from the lake - you can't reasonably carry watercraft that distance. Keep it strapped to the truck til you're ready hit the water.

The lake has an island, but the shores are precariously steep all the way around (as is common in a flooded canyon). You'd have to be really determined to camp on it.