Oci-One Kanubi wrote:

Since te only opportunity I will have to shop will be Thursday evening
after work, I need a reliable water-resistant digital camera with a
good zoom that I can get in Best Buy or Circuit City. OK, if I really
must I'll compromise and go to Walmart for the first time in five or
six years. I need to know what I want so I can just walk in and ask
for it; I really, really don't have time to shop around (the good news
is that groceries are bought, the truck is loaded, and I'm all ready in
almost all other respects!)

The dunkable waterproof cameras that are worth looking at (no housing required)
are Pentax and Olympus. If you want fully submersible other digital cameras
with a housing are better, but housings are bulky. If you check out a scuba
shop (check the web first) Sea&Sea and Sealife are submersible dive cameras.

http://kayakwiki.org/index.php/Camera

You can put more photos on a memory card than a CD, so you might want to get a
couple of high capacity memory cards and sort through the images when you get
home. A 6Mp Pentax will store something like 320 pictures per GB memory card.
The camera plus three 1GB SD cards will set you back about $500 and that's
almost 1000 photos. With one 2GB SD, that's less than $400 for about 650 photos
(or 30 photos per day for three weeks).

Mike