Nice! Was there in January what an experience it was, just unforgettable.

Great set. We were there in January, loved every minute we were there and kind of hated to come home.

I have used those orange drives and had 2 flake out on me. Once during a trip that I luckily had another drive with the same files otherwise would have lost a lot of the shots I had taken.

I use a similar setup but use a faster case that the transfer speeds (read and write) are higher. If you have a newer Mac M1 or newer it has transfer speeds up to 40gb which on vacation you do not or at least I do not want to wait very long while I copy the photos off the card. Usually I have the time it takes my wife to get out of the shower before I have to be ready to go. I have 2 drives that the files are copied to simultaneously, one I carry the other goes in my wife’s pack (she does not know it I stuff it in the bottom). Anyway the case I use is an ACASIS 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, Tool Free Installation, TBU 401 for M1 M2 Pro/Max, Compatible with USB4/3.2/3.1/3.0/2.0, Support SSD Size 2280 B+M M-Key (TBU401) you can get this on Amazon. It does get hot but you can edit right on the card massive files due to the high read and write speeds. Unfortunately I have not found any of the “pre made” drives (western digital, San disk etc) can match the speeds this case delivers. I do have a bunch of them that now sit unused.

Very nice set. Like the first shot of the birds. Kauai is our favorite island and hope to go next year. I would love to do the helicopter ride again with the doors off sounds like an incredible experience.

Very nice!

Thanks for all the comments. I have finally finished going through all the shots and process the best of them nd will post more soon.

I will and hopefully post some great shots. I am really excited about going, this will be my first really big trip going to several different countries with non US airlines including the safari planes and trucks requiring soft sided luggage and weight restrictions all on the same trip. The other issue is with camera gear I have found that TSA and airlines in other countries are way different than ours. So it is going to be an adventure.

I am surprised that nobody has mentioned Pangolin Photo Safaris. Has anybody taken a tour with them? We are scheduled to go in late August to early September to Victoria Falls, Chobe, and then the Masa.

We took the easy way, and drove around it and stopped at a couple of places and walked “in” to it. It was 107-110 degrees the days we were there. By noon they closed the trails and did not reopen them until after 6 that night. One morning we went out and it was like 89 degrees and it felt cool. So we mainly would go out when the sun came up until about noon then stayed in our room, bar or out to the pool for a quick dip until evening as the sun started to go down. I grew up in El Paso, Texas and in the summer we would get temperatures like this but it would drop lower in the evenings. Here it seemed to just stay blast furnace hot. Everyone says oh it is a dry heat, yes but it still felt like walking in an oven. We took like 4 showers a day just to cool off, you could wash your clothes in the sink put them outside in the sun for like 15 minutes and they were dry. Flies were bad too the hotter it got more and more flies but as the sun set so did they and the higher the sun rose in the morning so did the number of flies. They sold head nets every where.

Yes I did snorkel the Great Barrier Reef which for me and others in our group and all those who had snorkeled before it was a OH WOW or like “OMGee!”. It was a very moving experience for me and others, all I can say after being to Hawaii, Grand Cayman and other places nothing even comes close.

Thanks for all the comments. I have others from this trip I will post soon.

My wife and just returned from Australia, we visited many places but none impacted us as much as Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef. The feeling you have when looking at Uluru is very spiritual. We had an amazing time and enjoyed meeting the free spirited Australians.

Thanks for all the comments! They have made my day.

These are from our trip this past August. I posted Part 1 earlier and cannot find if I posted Part 2 or not. Sorry if this is a repeat.

I just completed in August a land and sea cruise tour, I was very limited on what I could carry and also had the debate of a 200-600 or 100-400. I ended up taking the 100-400 and it worked out great. For me I am 65 years old just recovering from breaking my elbow so weight and length were the some of the deciding factors. I have seen some use the mono pod as a walking stick for trails which taking the bigger lens would help out. For me another deciding factor were the tours I was taking. A small boat whale watch and the Tundra Wilderness tour where a big lens would be very cumbersome. On the boat the movement, space on the boat and a big lens that is not very fast kind of ruled out the 200-600 were you need that one more stop so you can crank up the shutter speed and not have a high ISO the 100-400 to give me a little more light. I did use a 1.4 teleconverter when on the Tundra Wilderness tour where I had more light, we had a beautiful day was sunny and clear. Yes we did see Denali. I posted some of the photos I took on UHH of that trip. I still need to post others I took I have just about finished processing them. Have a great time this was one of the best trips we have ever taken.

Very nice.