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Condors are essentially big buzzards, magnificent big buzzards.
In 1977 or so we were still running the Stanislaus River...the New Melones Dam would open a few years later.
There was a part of the river that was pond-like and slowly flowed into rock dace that had a lot of moss on it.
My passengers on the raft that day were German. I remember because the daughter was spectacular and her two brothers were funny, very funny.
About half way through the pond, a very large Condor was coasting up the river towards us, maybe six feet off the Stani.
No one said a word. It glided right over us, looked right at us: You could hear the wind over the wings.
It was quiet in the raft for a good minute.
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1996 FJ80.
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