Thanks Folks . Yes I did find the camera but not the same night & nope it aint waterproof .
It stormed all the night after the party but the river didn't come up to much more so I went back down there after it quit raining around noon yesterday .
The sun came out and I was hopeing I might be able to spot a glare somewheres close to where I might have dropped it but I wasn't even sure where or when exactlly I did so Kinda the needle/haystack deal . But it bothered me all night because everyone was so disapointed that all the pics I took of my wife with everybody were on my camera . So I was on a mission even though the chance of finding it was slim , but saving the pics off the memory card were even smaller according to all of my research .
I looked around the banks and in the shallow water as far as I could from up high for an hour as I was just about to give up untill later when I could get back in with my wife guiding to about where I might have dropped it I spotted something that looked like it could be it in 4 inches of shallow water . So I went back to the house to get my wife so she could point me to what I was seeing from up high .
She was excited that there may be a chance so back down we went, even though she was still suffering from the 3/2 flue .
Just getting back down the bank since it rained all night was much harder then the night before , but I slipped and saved myself several steps and of coarse when my wife heard the splash she busted out laughing while sayin Ya Alright
. I got over to the island where I was standing taking the pics so I could see about where I went in the water when I lost it , while I was trying to catch two beers thrown to me from above for the two ladys that decided to join me in my picture shoot . wern't no prissy women at our party.
She pointed me to what we could see from the top and she said that was exactlly the area where I caught the beers so it was looking good until I found out it was just a leaf stuck in the sand underwater throwing off a reflection .
But then she told me she had looked at the pics that next morning of when it happened and I was in the right spot . So we had a quick discussion of IF she had Pics on her camera why the hell didn't she tell me last night so I could look at them on the camera while I was allready soaked .
At any rate I kept looking in the area and there is a fairlly deep hole just a few feet from the log that was washed out because of the current so I went into see if I can feel anything , after waking up a large flathead and feeling around a bit more there it was down in the washout . I really wanted to bring the flathead up with me but decided that probablly wouldn't be a good thing to do at the moment .
I held it up ( the camera ) and she was tickled pink even though she knew the chances were slim of recovering the pics . So I crawled back up the muddy bank and we jumped in the cart and headed back up to the house .
To be continued . But heres a few pics of before and after I lost it , but now I can see I wasn't even close to where I dropped it . BTW I did catch both beers for the ladys and never dropped mine .