The Hillbilly Kiwi: Ghosts in the Machine

Jeremy and Elsie at Arches National Park, Utah

So I've been having some camera issues. As part of my maintenance, I changed out the memory card to a previously used one I thought wasn't too worn and torn.

Lily, Elsie, and Raike at Crater Lake, Oregon

I opened it and there were 2 old pics on there, that I had no idea how they weren't scrapped ages ago. They weren't anything special, but I loaded them onto my computer and deleted them, then started shooting on that old/new card.

Family pic at Bryce Canyon, Utah

I opened it to load those new pics onto my computer, and out of who knows where, a cache popped up. Loaded with treasures that I had absolutely no idea still existed.

Lily and our friend walking across a dried up portion of Salt Lake, Utah.

Looking through the pics, I realized that this was the card that was in a camera that took a dip in Salt Lake out in Utah. The pics are from our trip out west 8 years ago. The camera was destroyed, but I couldn't bring myself to pitch the card. I had tried a couple of times to access the data, but it always registered as empty. I had forgotten all about it and must have grabbed it with the others to bring to NZ.