Beaufort Mermaids

Carolina Car Trek has fallen back a notch and Beaufort’s Big Swim is now in second place on the Bogardi must-see-’em-all list (right after SC Post Offices.) And not just because the Mermaids are sans clothing, but mostly because the base of the cars is a 55 gallon drum that makes the whole thing look like a public trash bin with a funky top.

The new camera is here and I’m busy monkeying with it. I’ve taken about 20 pictures trying stuff out and so far absolutely none are worth saving, let alone posting here. Too bad I’ve stopped keeping score on the meals out thing because now I could have posted marvelous pictures to go with the prices because this camera has a special “Food” setting.

As much as I hated the Kodak Easyshare software, it made short work of transferring pictures from the camera to the PC. This camera came with a couple different programs for camera to PC connection and I hated the first one I tried, Lumix Simple Viewer, but the second one, Photo Fun Studio, seems a little better. One other thing the Kodak camera made simple was keeping the batter charged, it happened automatically every time the camera was in the dock. The Panasonic came with a separate battery charger, but you have to remove the battery from the camera to charge it. There is an optional AC adapter (DMW-AC5PP), but it doesn’t even charge the battery, it just runs the camera. Definitely won’t be getting that because they want $80 for it.