Oh, oh.... the truth is out now just how comfortable one can get when out with their camera. I won't be able to get any more sympathy at home when I come back wet, stiff, and sniffly from shooting on wet rainy/snowy days when it wasn't as nice as that one and when you can't park your tail in a folding chair. Oh well... Actually, there were some shots taken that day with a 1.4x between my 500 mm lens and the camera body but most were shot without it. With the 1.4x, which gives me 700 mm at f5.6, the lighthouse even from up on the bluffs is too big (nice thing to get to complain about, huh?) in the viewfinder when you want to catch the spray from big waves breaking over the lighthouse.

Gary