Last weekend I spent a couple of days paddling with Mark Arnold and he had a
nice little waterproof camera. I believe it was a Pentax Optio WPi, a 6
megapixel camera, waterproof (can withstand submersion to a depth of 1.5m
for 30 minutes) that he said he paid in the low two hundreds for. I just
did a search on Froogle and saw one for $199.

I met Mark in Ithaca last Saturday morning and we did a 3 hour paddle on our
local lake (Cayuga) where he took several shots of some small waterfalls
flowing into the lake. On Sunday we drove up (in separate vehicles) to
Wellsley Island (in the 1000 Islands region of the St. Lawrence river),
shared a campsite then went out for a paddle around the islands. We
launched in a very calm bay and paddled out with the wind at our backs to an
area called the narrows. We paddled around a couple of small islands then
worked our way across the opposite of the bay where the wind had picked up a
lot. We stopped for a lunch break, then rather than continue around the
perimeter of the bay and heading back into the teeth of the wind we went
back the way we came. By the time we back the entrance of the narrows and
into the lee of Wellsley island the water calmed and we made our way back to
the launch spot. We swapped boats for awhile and played around a bit. I
got to try his Impex Force 3, a boat I've been wanting to try for awhile. I
really liked the way it paddled. It would be on my short list for a boat to
buy if I ever decided to replace my Skerray.