So the fishing/camping/photography trip comes to an end. I'm not sure that anybody really caught anything worth keeping because they don't seem to have done a lot of cooking (though Mark might have caught a nifty new blue hat to replace the worn out tan one). Things winding down, Rusty brings up the subject of the poachers (just to remind everyone that there was some kind of illegal activity in this story), but Mark decides that he's on vacation, that it's really none of his business, and that it's a matter best left to the authorities. (Personally, I think he just wants to snag another cup of coffee from his friend at the wildlife office.) And so, this fishing/camping/photography trip (which really didn't show a lot of any of those three things) begins to wind down to the triumphant return of our intrepid fishermen/campers/photographers to Cherry, Doc, Andy, and everyone back at Lost Forest.
Or maybe not. Just when we think we're about to leave the swamp and this story behind (yeah, right, like Mark would really let something like poaching go uninvestigated), Sassy takes it upon herself to look into the strange noises she hears outside of the tent. Now, it could be that she's just going to go bark at some frogs or herons, but considering this is a Mark Trail comic, I'd say it's just as likely (and probably even more so) that she'll stumble upon the poachers and get in trouble, which means that Rusty will also get in trouble because he'll have woken up in the night, found her gone, and gone off into the dark and dangerous swamp to find her because she would have done the same for him. This means that, even though they should be leaving the swamp once everyone wakes up and has a hearty breakfast, this story isn't over yet. Nope. Not by a long shot.
So the fishing/camping/photography trip comes to an end. I'm not sure that anybody really caught anything worth keeping because they don't seem to have done a lot of cooking (though Mark might have caught a nifty new blue hat to replace the worn out tan one). Things winding down, Rusty brings up the subject of the poachers (just to remind everyone that there was some kind of illegal activity in this story), but Mark decides that he's on vacation, that it's really none of his business, and that it's a matter best left to the authorities. (Personally, I think he just wants to snag another cup of coffee from his friend at the wildlife office.) And so, this fishing/camping/photography trip (which really didn't show a lot of any of those three things) begins to wind down to the triumphant return of our intrepid fishermen/campers/photographers to Cherry, Doc, Andy, and everyone back at Lost Forest.
Or maybe not. Just when we think we're about to leave the swamp and this story behind (yeah, right, like Mark would really let something like poaching go uninvestigated), Sassy takes it upon herself to look into the strange noises she hears outside of the tent. Now, it could be that she's just going to go bark at some frogs or herons, but considering this is a Mark Trail comic, I'd say it's just as likely (and probably even more so) that she'll stumble upon the poachers and get in trouble, which means that Rusty will also get in trouble because he'll have woken up in the night, found her gone, and gone off into the dark and dangerous swamp to find her because she would have done the same for him. This means that, even though they should be leaving the swamp once everyone wakes up and has a hearty breakfast, this story isn't over yet. Nope. Not by a long shot.
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