(Report by Jim)
As goes with motorcycles, so goes with drones. It’s not if you will crash it, it’s WHEN. I was all set up for an epic low altitude shore run of North and South beaches when I lost communication with the drone and it continued it’s errant course into the hillside. Luckily, I still had GPS communication and could locate it 20ft up the hillside hanging on a branch with just a single propeller broken. I guess it could have been worse, it didn’t get dunked, but I did have to wade through almost waist deep Lake Michigan water to get to it because of the high water levels!
But wet and freezing or not, I will not pass up a photo of dinner-plate-sized Petosky stones
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Took a trip over to East Leland for a Christmas tree for the deck at Kolarik’s Tree Farm.
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Great pics! Unlucky you lost the signal, lucky you didn’t loose the drone! Unlucky you hadn’t your chest waders randomly on?
Sorry for your loss, Jim . At least it did not go into the lake, If you can get any consolation from that.
You did come up with some interesting pix, though.
These photos are beautiful of the Petoskey Stones…sorry you had such a rough time saving the drone. Living in NC now, but still miss Leland so much. I still have my one large Stone I found 20 years ago, but miss looking down for them. Thank you for all of the postings and have a Blessed Christmas.